The Ontario government says starting in 2025, child-care centres that aren’t participating in the national 10-dollar-a-day program will no longer receive routine funding.
It says non-participating child-care centres will lose provincial funding to offer fee-subsidies to lower-income families and their staff could see a pay cut of two-dollars an hour.
That money will instead go into funding for the 10-dollar-a-day program.
Andrea Hannen, executive director of the Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario, says the new changes will make it harder for non-participating centres to operate, and could lead to more centres closing their doors.
CANADIAN PRESS