Ontario needs more money to properly deliver the national $10-a-day child-care program now and beyond the life of the current agreement.
WATCH: A group of private daycare operators gathered at Queen’s Park Tuesday to protest upcoming changes to the $10-a day daycare program. Caryn Lieberman spoke with a child care advocate who says those protesting do not represent the majority of centres that welcome the program.Ontario needs more money to properly deliver the national $10-a-day child-care program now and beyond the life of the current agreement, the province’s education minister has told the federal minister in a new letter.
The province has used the federal funding so far to cut fees in half for parents, with a further reduction coming Jan. 1, but says little money is left to help operators add more spaces or implement a wage grid for early childhood educators to help ease a recruitment and retention crunch. Carolyn Ferns, the policy co-ordinator for the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, said it’s encouraging to hear that Ontario is still eyeing a wage grid for ECEs — having so far rebuffed long-standing calls from workers for one — since it will be impossible for the sector to meet demand for spaces if centres can’t retain enough staff.
There will also be a “legacy top up,” so existing operators in the program can pay expenses that exceed typical ones, such as higher catering costs to offer kosher food, higher rent based on their location, higher staff costs or equipment for special needs children.
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