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Advocacy Update
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Breaking
News from Ontario!
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1. Bill
242, Legislation Implementing
Early Learning, Passes Third Reading at Queen's Park!
Minister of Education Leona
Dombrowski and Minister of Children and Youth Services Laurel Broten
recently made the annoucement:
Ontario Passes Full-Day Learning Legislation.
This Legislation allows School
Boards to operate the full-day learning program including ECE's in
the classroom, the extended day program and to allow school boards to
collect fees for the extended day.
For more information on the
Bill and Amendments, please see the Ontario Coalition for Better
Child Care's Bulletin.
2. Fee Subsidy and Capital funding
to support child care centres announced
When Premier McGuinty announced
the full-day learning program, background materials talked about the
necessity of transitional and capital funding for child care programs.
The Government announced new
Provincial funding for: -
fee subsidies
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light capital
Funding for additional fee
subsidies will start this year at $6 million and grow to $51 million
over five years. It is new permanent Provincial funding (in addition
to the $63.5 million replacing Federal funding from the last budget).
Funding for light capital starts
this year, is available only to not-for-profit child care centres and
grows to $12 million in five years (not permanent funding).
3. Licensed
Child Care to Move to the new Early Years Division
Effective Monday, May 3rd,
licensed child care programs from the Ministry of Children and Youth
Services will fall under the Early Years Division, Ministry of Education.
Licensing specialists will continue to fall under MCYS until they are
transferred to the Ministry of Education.
For child care programs,
there is no immediate change. The Municipal role in delivering child
care programs remains the same.
For more on these
updates, please visit the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care's
website.
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