Modernizing Manitoba’s child-care systen

The provincial government is spending $6,181,500 to support  15 community-based capital projects that will create up to 739 new child-care spaces.

“Families across Manitoba understand the importance of safe and affordable child-care options and it has been evident since forming government, there are many opportunities for us to improve and modernize the system to ensure it is meeting the needs of Manitobans,” said Families Minister Scott Fielding. 

Along with funding the government will be making changes to Manitoba’s licensed early learning and child-care system.

“This first step will reform the licensing process and build a service-oriented system that focuses primarily on the needs of children, parents and child-care professionals, rather than on the administrative procedures that place an excessive burden on operators.” Fielding said.

The change to the system while make improvements in how child-care centre licensing renewals are handled, streamline applications of certified early childhood educators wanting to open a licensed family child-care home and improve access to information on the process for opening child-care centres.

The initiative will also simplify and speed up the process for age exemptions so that infants who are developmently ready can be moved into vacant preschool spaces within the same centre.

-News4 Staff-

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