Daycare compensation package coming for parents still paying child care fees
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A solution is coming soon for parents whose children cannot attend daycare, yet still have to pay their regular fees.
The Department of Education has been working on the details of a daycare compensation...
Toronto to offer free, 24-7 childcare for essential workers after Ontario gives go-ahead
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TORONTO -- Ontario will open emergency child care centres during the COVID-19 pandemic to free up front-line essential service employees, who are battling the deadly virus that has infected hundreds in the...
New educational and financial supports for Islanders
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Today, the Province of Prince Edward Island announced supports for early learning centres, learning opportunities for Island students and financial relief for post-secondary provincial loans, as well as an...
Toronto planning free, 24-7 emergency child care for essential workers
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Help is on the way if you are an essential worker in Toronto scrambling to find care for young children in the wake of Ontario’s order to shutter daycares and schools to slow the spread of COVID-19.
The City...
Nurseries will close without more support during coronavirus
Early Years Alliance says government’s protective measures do not go far enough
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Thousands of nurseries are set to close unless the government provides more financial support to...
Parents with these jobs can continue to send their children to school
The government has released a full list of workers deemed "essential" to the COVID-19 response.
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Many schools are shutting their gates until further notice as the government ramps up...
Child care options for health workers and other pandemic response worker
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The Government of Saskatchewan is re-purposing child care facilities in schools to provide child care services to support staff in health care and other employees who are delivering services related to the...
All schools to close from Friday; GCSE and A-level exams cancelled – UK Covid-19, as it happened
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All UK schools will close immediately to staff and most pupils from Friday afternoon until further notice. Wales was first to announce the measure, followed closely by Scotland and Northern Ireland, before the...
Manitoba health-care workers want action on child-care promise
Essential workers to keep working through COVID-19 pandemic as most daycares close Friday
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With more daycares set to close in Manitoba Friday, health-care workers expected to work...
Compassion required in child-care crunch
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It won’t be like a snow day, that’s for sure.
As part of the response to the COVID-19 crisis, the province has moved to close licensed daycares as of the end of this week. That, in addition to schools in the...
