'What's the right thing to do?' Coronavirus forces families to make painful childcare decisions
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Nerida Brownlee and her husband have three children under 3 years old. When they were told to work from home, the Philadelphia couple had what they thought was a long and careful conversation with their nanny...
For parents, a battle to find day care while so much closes amid coronavirus fears
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Miss P’s Daycare is trying to stay open.
The already-cautious Angelique Speight-Marshall — who has operated the day care out of her Northwest Washington home for two decades — is being hypervigilant as the...
Manitoba Child Care Association position statement on COVID-19
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The Manitoba Child Care Association (MCCA) believes that early learning & child care (ELCC) servicesshould be suspended, at minimum, in correlation with the schools’ suspensions in the province of Manitoba...
All Nunavut schools and daycares to close for three weeks
Affected government employees will be accommodated to work from home
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All schools in Nunavut are going to close for three weeks, starting Tuesday.
On a recommendation from Nunavut's...
Child care and the Coronavirus - Solutions beyond our borders
This information is intended to give people at least an idea of how this is being handled in a selection of European countries. At this point, there is no source of consolidated information on COVID-19 and child care...
Being a childcare worker has always meant living on the frontlines
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N.B. parents preparing to deal with coronavirus-related daycare closures
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Parents and caregivers in Saint John expressed little surprise when it was announced that daycares in the province would be closing in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.
New Brunswick’s Chief Medical...
Health Department urges daycares to close
Certain facilities will stay open for children of essential workers
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Chief Medical Officer Jennifer Russell recommends all daycares close, excluding a few centres that have been...
COVID-19: These EMSB daycares will stay open for parents in essential services
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The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) has announced the schools that will have open daycares in order to alleviate stress on parents who perform essential services, such as healthcare providers, police and...
COVID-19: Quebec to offer free emergency daycare for healthcare workers
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Quebec is providing free emergency daycare services for the preschool and elementary-aged children of healthcare providers and other workers in essential services' as the province implements measures to contain...
