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British Columbia: COVID-19 and child care in the news

How daycares have operated during the pandemic — and what it can tell us about schools reopening [1]
CBC News, 14 August 2020

School year start date to be pushed back for B.C. students, unclear when in-class learning will begin [2]
Global News, 11 August 2020

B.C. will delay start of school: Minister of Education [3]
Vancouver is Awesome, 11 August 2020

‘We are stuck’: After-school care an extra worry for B.C. parents amid COVID-19 [4]
Global News, 5 August 2020

Most B.C. students to return to full-time classes in September [5]
CTV News, 29 July 2020

Professional development goes virtual for child care professionals [6]
Voice, 29 July 2020

Child-care services at Vancouver community centres returning this fall [7]
CBC News, 23 July 2020

Comox Valley MPs want feds to stabilize child care sector [8]
Comox Valley Record, 18 July 2020

$1.6-million child care facility coming to Canal Flats [9]
MyEastkootenayNow, 24 June 2020

Children unlikely to pass COVID-19 to each other, says provincial health officer [10]
CBC News, 23 June 2020

Opinion: Early childhood educators at the forefront of B.C.’s recover [11]
Vancouver Sun, 18 June 2020

B.C. extends emergency child-care funding through the summer [12]
CBC News, 17 June 2020

Emergency covid-19 funding for Indigenous Early Learning & Child Care (June 1 - September 30, 2020) [13]
BC Aboriginal Child Care Society, 1 June 2020

Daycares in B.C. not mandated to reopen despite new health guidelines [14]
Tricity news, 15 May 2020

Delta parents forced to choose ‘undesirable childcare options’ [15]
Delta Optimist, 14 May 2020

Reopening B.C.: updated guidelines released for childcare centres [16]
Global News, 15 May 2020

B.C. daycares will begin to reopen in mid-May amid COVID-19 pandemic [17]
Global News, 6 May 2020

Thousands of child-care spaces still available in B.C. for children of essential workers [18]
CBC News, 23 April 2020

Struggle to find childcare for B.C.’s essential-service staff highlights fear over sector’s future [19]
CBC News, 7 April 2020

Province helps essential service workers find child care [20]
MyPowellRiverNow, 2 April 2020

COVID-19: Temporary emergency funding guidelines [21]
Government of BC, 26 March 2020

COVID-19: Vancouver offers emergency childcare referrals to essential COVID-19 workers [22]
Global News, 27 March 2020

COVID-19: Operational requirements unsuitable should daycare open for essential workers: Operators [23]
VOCM, 27 March 2020

COVID-19: Newsletter - Child care and COVID-19 [24]
First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition, 26 March 2020

COVID-19: In-home child-care providers face tough decisions despite government aid [25]
Vancouver Sun, 26 March 2020

COVID-19: Okanagan (B.C) daycare supporting essential service providers amid COVID-19  [26]
Salmon Arm Observer, 21 March 2020

COVID-19: BC: Child care gets a boost to help support essential service workers during coronavirus crisis [27]
Global News, 21 March 2020

COVID-19 shut down B.C. schools — so why are daycares still open? [28]
CBC News, 19 March 2020

COVID-19: Opinion: It's 'unethical' to keep B.C. child care facilities open during the COVID-19 pandemic [29]
Kamloops Matters, 19 March 2020

BC: Child-care providers raise coronavirus concerns in letter to B.C. premier [30]
Global News, 18 March 2020

B.C. daycares to stay open, but situation could change quickly: Horgan [31]
Global News, 17 March 2020

B.C. physicians concerned over lack of childcare options amid COVID-19 emergency [32]
CBC News, 17 March 2020

COVID-19: Preschools and daycares need guidance, financial help during pandemic say, operators [33]
Prince George Citizen, 16 March 2020

Mon, 09/14/2020

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