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Families across Canada know that affordable child care is not a luxury—it is a necessity. That is why the Government of Canada is working with provincial, territorial, and Indigenous partners to implement a Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) system that will bring fees for regulated child care across the country down to $10-a-day on average by March 2026.
Today, the Honourable Krista Lynn Howell, Minister of Education, and the Honourable Gudie Hutchings, Federal Minister of Rural Economic Development, on behalf of the Honourable Jenna Sudds, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, announced a three-year action plan to improve and expand early learning and child care services across the province under the Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement and the Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Early Learning and Child Care Agreement. The plan sets a road map for strengthening and expanding the child care sector in the province and improving access to high-quality, affordable, flexible and inclusive child care for families.
Over the course of the three-year plan, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Early Learning and Child Care Action Plan 2023–2024 to 2025–2026 outlines spending of more than $280 million in five areas: Affordability... Access... Quality... Inclusion... Administration...
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