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Charlottetown, P.E.I — An internal consultant’s report has found that P.E.I. currently has significant “deserts” of after-school childcare and recommends expanding the $10-a-day daycare program to ensure universal access to after-school programming.

The report, written by Carolyn Simpson, a former director in the Department of Education and Early Years, set the year 2030 as the ultimate goal for implementing this expansion, with the aim of ensuring access to after-school care in all public primary schools. 

The Guardian obtained a redacted version of the July 2024 report via freedom of information.

Simpson’s report stressed that, in many cases, access to school-aged care is necessary to allow parents to work, particularly between the hours in which primary schools finish and the workday is over.

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