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Increasing access to affordable child care [1]

A new $53-million grant will create even more high-quality, affordable child-care spaces for the province.
Author: 
Government of Alberta
Source: 
Government of Alberta
Format: 
Press release
Publication Date: 
30 Jan 2025
AVAILABILITY
Access online [2]

Excerpts

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Alberta’s government and the Government of Canada are investing $53 million over two years in the Building Blocks Capital Grant Program to encourage the creation of new child-care spaces. The funds will help Alberta’s child-care providers create more affordable, high-quality spaces where Alberta families need them most.

The grant will provide non-profit and public child-care providers the capital to build, expand, upgrade and make repairs to their existing facilities. These improvements must support the creation of new child-care spaces.

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The Building Blocks program will offer two grant streams: major capital and minor capital projects.

  • Major capital grants: For projects that cost $500,000 or more and may include new construction of a child-care facility, building expansions, substantial upgrades and the purchase, assembly, installation and delivery of a modular building structure.
  • Minor capital grants: For projects that cost less than $500,000 and may include interior and exterior renovations, upgrades, repairs, refurbishment or improvements without changes to the structure in a new or existing building.

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Related link: 
Introducing $15 a day child care for families [3]
Region: 
Alberta [4]
Tags: 
$10 a day [5]
access [6]
CWELCC [7]
federal funding [8]

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[1] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/25/01/increasing-access-affordable-child-care [2] https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=927112F5884AF-CC7A-1B7A-657862711D8EE998 [3] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/25/01/introducing-15-day-child-care-families [4] https://childcarecanada.org/taxonomy/term/7859 [5] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/10-a-day-child-care [6] https://childcarecanada.org/category/tags/access [7] https://childcarecanada.org/taxonomy/term/9278 [8] https://childcarecanada.org/taxonomy/term/9108