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After a restoration of funds in late February, Friday the provincial announced government further cuts to child care service.

The cuts will include the elimination of Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre's annual $800,000 service budget, which will mean there will be no more anti-bullying training for child care workers, the end of the provincial lending library and closures of a number of Child Care Resource and Referral [CCRR] offices around the province.

The provincial government announced Feb. 28 it will put $9 million back into the budget for the Child Care Resource and Referral Program [CCRR]. The restoration came after the government announced in January it would be cutting CCRR service budgets by almost 80 per cent. In a release issued Friday B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union president George Heyman called the announcement, "another Black Friday for child care in B.C."

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- reprinted from the Abbotsford Times