Provincial Government Provides Update on Child Care Services

With the increasing expansion of child care services under the province’s five alert levels in ‘A Foundation for Living with COVID-19’, the Compensation Grant Program for regulated child care services and the Essential Worker Child Care Program will continue until June 26 at which time they will conclude.

The programs were established in March to reduce immediate impacts on regulated child care services, employees and families, and to enable essential workers to provide critical services during the initial stages of the pandemic.

Regulated child care services are currently operating at 50 per cent capacity under Alert Level 4 and will expand to 70 per cent capacity when the province moves to Alert Level 3, expected on June 8.