The province provides substantial public funding for daycare centres that provide spaces for children aged five or under. However, after-school daycare has not been funded to the same level.
“It was also said that rural programs face additional staffing challenges due to their location and demographics.” "It's something that we know is important to families, and we're exploring what our next steps are," Jameson said. An all-party P.E.I. standing committee is calling on the province to provide more funding for school-aged daycare. - Stu Neatby/SaltWire
Staff from CHANCES told the committee the registry’s numbers are often inaccurate. The registry allows parents to sign their children up on waitlists for multiple centres, which they say has muddied the accuracy of its data. Staff from the department has confirmed to SaltWire that the registry was not set up to be a statistical tool.In a Feb. 8 email to SaltWire, the department said the registry’s numbers contained errors which incorrectly showed the numbers of parents on the registry spiked between January and August 2023, increasing by close to 600 children.
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