For-profit daycares opted out of $10/day child care program at much higher rate than non-profits, a Star analysis found.
Parents in Toronto are less likely to see reduced fees for licensed daycare than in almost any other part of the province, a Star analysis of municipal child-care data has found.
This imbalance illustrates why Ontario should stop trying to appease for-profit providers, policy experts and non-profit advocates say. Neither the Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario, which primarily represents for-profit daycares, nor the Ontario Association of Independent Childcare Centres, which exclusively represents for-profits, responded to questions for this story.
In a short interview with the Star outside the legislature on Dec. 8, Education Minister Stephen Lecce said Ontario’s overall opt-in rate of 92 per cent is a success and could only be achieved because for-profit daycares were allowed to participate. Parents whose daycares chose not to participate are still paying market rates.
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