This plan offers steps to guide the community in creating a vibrant and accessible child care landscape to meet the diverse needs of our community.
These are some of the main findings:
- Golden and Area A lacks 121 child care spaces for children from birth to 36 months;
- A lack of qualified Early Childhood Educators poses the most significant challenge to opening spaces;
- Families appreciate and need a variety of child care settings and diverse offerings (e.g., child care & home-based centres, flexible schedules, etc.).
Summary of the child care action plan’s recommendations:
- Quality community-wide child care;
- Shared intake and waitlist platform;
- Local ECE recruitment and retention – sector development plan;
- Early Childhood Education learning hub;
- Shared Early Childhood Educator sub-pool;
- Spaces offering flexible and non-traditional hours;
- French and bilingual child care spaces;
- Culturally enriching Indigenous child care spaces.
