News - Child Care

The Manitoba government is funding four new child-care centres in partnership with public schools as it moves forward on its commitment in the 2015 throne speech to provide 12,000 new spaces, support early childhood educators and create a universally accessible child-care system for families.

Children receiving services from child welfare agencies will be better protected under new provincial legislation that recently came into effect and requires the immediate reporting of all critical incidents of children in care.

The Manitoba government will invest $375,000 to promote healthy eating for young children by encouraging positive eating environments in child-care settings.

The Manitoba government is on track to end the use of hotels as emergency placements for youth in Manitoba Child and Family Services care today by creating a continuum of supports for families and more resources for agencies.

The Manitoba government has established a commission to look at ways to redesign Manitoba’s early learning and child-care system to guide future plans including developing options to create universally accessible early learning and child care for all Manitoba families who need it.

First aid and babysitting courses, being offered through the Steinbach Aquatic Centre, will be available to the public beginning this month.

The Government of Manitoba is launching a new five-year plan to create more high-quality child care for families across the province including investing in 5,000 more child-care spaces and another 20 new or expanded child-care centres.

MP Vic Toews has announced support for the Vita Community Child Care Centre under the Harper Government’s Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF).

Families in the Steinbach and La Broquerie areas have greater access to some of the best and most affordable child care in Canada with the opening of a new child-care centre and the expansion of two others.

Construction is underway on a new early learning and child-care facility connected to École Sainte-Agathe that will create 32 additional child-care spaces for the francophone communities of Ste. Agathe and Aubigny.