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Trauma-informed daycare will be first in Canada
Vancouver Sun
Canada’s first trauma-informed daycare is expected to be a safe space for young children who have experienced trauma.
The United Way is raising money to complete construction of Little Phoenix Daycare in Victoria, said Mark Breslauer, CEO of United Way Greater Victoria.
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Canada announces $2.4 million for early education in Nunavut to help children learn amid pandemic
Global Citizen
The government of Canada and the government of Nunavut are providing $2.4 million in support for early education and child care programs as part of the Canada-Nunavut Early Learning and Child Care Agreement.
The $2.4 million commitment, recently announced by Canada’s Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development Ahmed Hussen and Nunavut’s Minister of Education David Joanasie, will help ensure access to high quality learning opportunities for children in underserved communities in the northern territory.
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Coronavirus: Ontario government revises school, child-care centre screening guidelines
Global News
Parents of students with the sniffles or a headache will no longer have to line up for hours to get their children tested at COVID-19 assessment centres under Ontario’s newly amended screening guidelines for schools and daycares.
Dr. Barbara Yaffe, the province’s associate chief medical officer of health, said students with either of those symptoms can return to school after 24 hours if they otherwise feel fine. She said those are only symptoms in about 17 per cent of COVID-19 cases among children, so the change seemed prudent.
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Moe promises to create 750 more child-care spaces in the province in the next 4 years
CBC News
Saskatchewan Party leader Scott Moe is promising to create 750 new child-care spaces over the next four years if the party is re-elected.
"Two hundred and thirty of these child-care spaces will be located in the new schools we are building," Moe said while campaigning in Prince Albert recently. "The other 520 new child-care spaces will be home-based care spaces."
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Prof: National child-care plan could help Canada rebound from COVID-induced economic crisis
Victoria News
When the Liberals unveiled a plan for child care in the recent Throne Speech, University of B.C. associate professor Paul Kershaw said he was feeling hopeful hearing the issue take centre stage as Canada plans for its COVID-19 recovery.
“It is significant to see child care featured so prominently in a throne speech,” said University of B.C. associate professor at the School of Population and Public Health and Generation Squeeze founder Paul Kershaw.
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Advocates: $25-a-day daycare applauded as good first step, but more needed to fix 'a broken system'
CBC News
Budget 2020 delivered on a key leadership race promise from Premier Andrew Furey of $25-a-day daycare, and people pushing for such improvements say it's a good first step, but much more is needed for Newfoundland and Labrador's uneven child-care system.
Wednesday's budget included $3 million for the program for the first three months of 2021, which would subsidize 8,000 spaces in regulated child-care homes and centres. The overall cost of the program is $12 million annually.
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Federal government provides support for child care in Alberta
Welland Tribune
Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development announced on September 22nd that the Government of Alberta will receive $72 million of the $625 million in federal support for Canada’s child care sector to help ensure that safe and sufficient child care is available to support parents’ gradual return to work. This funding is in addition to the $45 million Alberta is receiving through the 2020-21 Canada-Alberta Early Learning and Child Care Bilateral Agreement to support child-care programs and services for Alberta families.
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Girls benefit from doing sports
Science Daily
Girls — but not boys — who participate actively in school sports activities in middle childhood show improved behaviour and attentiveness in early adolescence, suggests a new Canadian study published in Preventative Medicine.
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Cumberland looks to school district for child-care partnership
BC Local News
With many new families moving to Cumberland, the community has been taking a look at its child-care needs.
At their most recent meeting, council got an update from staff on plans to increase child-care spaces in the Comox Valley community.
Part of this child-care space plan includes exploring options with School District 71. A resolution passed by council at the Sept. 28 meeting directs staff to work with the school district to set up a facility either on school grounds or on adjacent property owned by the Village.
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