43% of parents with young children said they had to wait more than six months to get a spot; 88 per cent said they still want access to $10-a-day child care.
A strong majority of British Columbians support the government’s $10-a-day child-care program despite it only having been rolled out in nine per cent of licensed facilities.
Gregson says there are currently about 15,000 B.C. children who attend $10-a-day child care. That represents about nine per cent of the 146,000 spaces in a province with about 600,000 children 12 and under. Gregson said there have been huge improvements in child-care affordability in recent years, with tens of thousands of more spaces created and funded since 2018.
Those experiences suggest that a good child-care system requires more investment in good quality facilities and the training of a qualified and well-compensated workforce, Gregson said. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Education and Child Care said it has helped open 18,000 child-care spaces since 2018, but that building more spaces “does take time.” The spokesperson said “caution is recommended” when comparing child-care delivery across provinces and territories.
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