Education Minister Stephen Lecce announces a $213-million program that will provide one-time grants to new and existing child-care operators to offset initial costs of expanding or creating spaces
Ontario is launching a grant program for child-care operators to create new spaces, as part of the province’s commitment to add tens of thousands of new spots – a target advocates say will fall well short of demand spurred by $10-a-day care.
The grants – funded by the federal government as part of its national child care program – will be prioritized in areas with historically low rates of availability, and the province aims to improve flexibility of the hours during which parents can access daycare, Lecce said. Families should be receiving rebates for 25 per cent on average off their fees back to April, with that increasing to 50 per cent reductions by the end of this year.
As part of the deal with the federal government, the province is establishing an $18-an-hour wage floor for registered early childhood educators and $20 for RECE supervisors. Those amounts increase by one dollar each year of the deal.
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