By Cheryl Jahn

Child Care Needs

Child care survey underway

Oct 4, 2019 | 2:39 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – The City is asking for help from parents and child care providers alike.

It has launched a public engagement process to get an idea about the child care needs in the community.

It comes in response to a provincial budget commitment in 2018 to create 22,000 new child care space in BC and has earmarked $1 billion over three years to do that. A portion of that funding has been set aside by the Child and Family Development to do exactly what the City is doing. “We’re talking about the types of child care, the number of spaces that would be required, where in the community people believe there need to be more spaces.” Brown says the goal is to create an action plan that will lay out the community’s requirements as far ahead as a decade. The hope is to have that action plan done by the end of the month.

There are two opportunities this weekend for parents to get involved. There is a public engagement session from two to five p.m. at the South Fort George Resource Centre on LaSalle on Saturday and another at the Prince George Public Library on Sunday for one to three p.m. There are also a pair of surveys that can be filled out online. The first targets parents and it can be found here and the second is for child care providers and can be found here.