Province introduces new child care legislation
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PRINCE GEORGE – The Province introduced two new bills today, both aimed at improving access to affordable child care.
The introduction of the early learning and child care (ELCC) act and the early childhood educators (ECEs) act recaptures the momentum of the original BC Child Care Act introduced in 1996 to begin building an accessible, affordable, quality, inclusive child care system.
“Families have been experiencing child care chaos for too long,” said Katrina Chen, Minister of State for Child Care. “This legislation is an important step in our 10-year Childcare BC plan to give families access to quality, affordable child care.”
The proposed acts build on the $10aDay Plan introduced in 2018, which includes a pilot program to have several daycares in the province with $10-a-day daycare, and the Family Y of Northern BC is one of those sites.
