Parents and child-care operators in Ontario say there is a troubling lack of transparency in the rollout of the program
. Some operators say that without more clarity they may not join this year, if at all. But the good news for many parents in Toronto and other municipalities in the province is that money is expected to begin flowing to the centres and reducing parents’ fees by next month.
“We anticipate that operators will start to receive their money at the very beginning of October,” she said. Last month, the province extended the deadline for centres to opt in to the program from Sept. 1 to Nov. 1, and released new guidelines in part because operators complained about a lack of clarity.Some operators say there is still a lack of transparency that makes them reluctant to join the program.
“It just makes planning life incredibly hard, especially for the cohort of us who had little ones during the pandemic. There was a lot of other sort of financial strains during that time,” said Ashley Wettlaufer, an alcohol policy research methods specialist who lives in Mississauga, where her son is in daycare.
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