Sarnia Observer: Adapting to full day kindergarten
“Currently PEELC provides service for children from 20 months old to six years. It’s licenced for 20 children at Point Edward United Church and provides a before and after school program at Bridgeview school. Murray said the centre is considering offering service for children as young as three months to make up for an eventual loss of four and five-year-olds.”
“For Jane Falconer, executive director of London Bridge Child Care Services, her biggest concern is whether there will be enough funding for children four and under. Currently child care providers are given fee and wage subsidies to offset costs, but she worries the expense of full day kindergarten may threaten that funding.”
“If that money is minimized over this whole process then what will happen is centres will either close … or the cost will be absorbed into the community,” she said.
“On average, centres across the province provide 38 % of service for four and five-year-olds, Falconer said.”
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