The provincial government has announced that its short-term emergency funding to licensed child-care centres across B.C. will be extended till the end of August.
Since April, $150 million has been spent by the province to help in covering costs for child-care centres that are open and closed and according to the province, about 90 percent of eligible providers have received support.
While talking about the extension, Katrina Chen, the Minister of State for Child Care said it was paramount to carry on with the funding to hold on to as much of B.C.’s child-care spaces as possible as the economy reopens.
Chen said: “A lot of closed centres continue to have ongoing costs, such as Hydro and rent, and we need to make sure they can come back in service when parents are returning to work and needing child-care services in the coming weeks and months.”
Chen says child care is a major priority for getting the economy back on track.
