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Kelowna is a focal point for a new report advocating for the NDP provincial government to direct more child care funding to non-profit daycares.
The report comes with significant childcare funding announcements expected this spring at both the federal and provincial government levels.
Advocate Iglika Ivanova says the province has an opportunity to do a reset with funding as reliance on the private sector in B.C. is only passing a greater cost burden onto parents.
In the study, titled Sounding The Alarm: COVID-19’s impact on Canada’s precarious childcare sector released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ivanova helped survey 37 cities across the country and found some of the highest fee increases for three to five year olds were in B.C. from 2019 to 2020.
The five cities surveyed in B.C. were Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, Richmond and Kelowna.
Kelowna is a focal point for a new report advocating for the NDP provincial government to direct more child care funding to non-profit daycares.
The report comes with significant childcare funding announcements expected this spring at both the federal and provincial government levels.
Advocate Iglika Ivanova says the province has an opportunity to do a reset with funding as reliance on the private sector in B.C. is only passing a greater cost burden onto parents.
In the study, titled Sounding The Alarm: COVID-19’s impact on Canada’s precarious childcare sector released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ivanova helped survey 37 cities across the country and found some of the highest fee increases for three to five year olds were in B.C. from 2019 to 2020.
The five cities surveyed in B.C. were Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, Richmond and Kelowna.