News - Child Care

The Manitoba government has made amendments to the Child Care Regulation to increase the operating grants for all licensed and provincially funded early learning and child-care facilities.

The governments of Canada and Manitoba have partnered with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) to create a model for early childhood educators to help detect and prevent child abuse in Canada.

The province of Manitoba has announced that licensed and funded child-care facilities will be receiving a joint-government funding increase to support wages for child-care professionals.

The governments of Canada and Manitoba are allocating $13.5 million to help child-care centres expand infant and preschool spaces through the 2023-24 Renovation Expansion Grant.

The Manitoba government is increasing starting wages under Manitoba’s Early Learning and Child Care Wage Grid for the early childhood workforce in funded child-care facilities by $56.1 million effective July 1, 2023.

The province has announced that it has reached a historic milestone in which Manitoba families will pay a maximum of $10-a-day for children 12 years and under for regular hours of child care, beginning April 2.

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson, announced that Manitoba will achieve an average of $10-a-day regulated child care on April 2, – three years ahead of the national target. This milestone achievement could save families hundreds of dollars per child, per month on average.

Manitoba families in rural and First Nations communities will be better able to access affordable child care following a $94-million total investment from the governments of Canada and Manitoba in the two phases of the ready-to-move child-care project to create a total of 1,670 new child-care spaces.

The governments of Canada and Manitoba are allocating up to $70 million in capital funding for new child-care facilities, creating more than 1,200 new, regulated non-profit child-care spaces across the province with a focus on rural and First Nations communities.

The governments of Canada and Manitoba have extended the Canada-Manitoba Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) Agreement, investing close to $98 million over four years to continue building and strengthening regulated child care services for children six years old and under.