Government funding has reduced fees, a welcome relief for parents. But the quantity and quality of day cares is still a big challenge. Find out more.
, although Gregson said these workers can be hard to retain in this expensive province because of low salaries.Article content
Matthew Rachar and his wife, Veronika, have been caught in B.C.’s frustrating hurry-up-and-wait child care system. The couple lived in Austria, where child care was plentiful and affordable, when Rachar was offered a job in Vancouver in summer 2021. “So that made it very difficult. My wife would have liked to go back to work earlier, but we had to wait basically an extra year for her to be able to do that,” he said. “But our story does have a happy ending.”
Even though Vancouver City Hall is pursuing a 10-year child care strategy, partially funded through developers providing money for spaces, it still has the lowest number of licensed, full-day spaces per preschooler of all cities in B.C., and the fourth lowest for all Canadian cities, according to the CPPA report.
Part of the reason why Vancouver scores so poorly is because it has historically had a large number of part-time daycares, which Macdonald didn’t count in his data as they’re not helpful for working parents.Article content Even though the number of deserts in Canada is similar to when Macdonald wrote his last report in 2018, he is more optimistic today.Article content
But Gregson would like it to be broadened to higher grades, as most schools right now have limited after-school programs run in portables that can’t meet demand. And she would urgently like to see more zero-to-five child care on school grounds.
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