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03.12.2020 / 02:43

‘A huge juggling act’: B.C. parents struggle daily with COVID-19 and daycare

COVID-19 pandemic.In order to keep everyone safe, parents are being asked to keep kids home from daycare if they have at least two of the seven daily health-care check symptoms.Parents are struggling to work to pay the bills while keeping their children home when necessary. B.C.’s daily health checklist for children going to school shortens to just 7 symptoms She said she had to quit her full-time job as a nurse because she couldn’t get daycare for her kids.

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After-school programs an ‘afterthought’ in COVID-19 guidelines, advocates say

school programs are being neglected, according to advocates. They believe it’s a blind spot that could increase the COVID-19 risk among elementary students, in particular.“Even if the kids in a before-and-after school program are all from one school, they’re still funnelling in from different cohorts,” said Martha Friendly, a long-time child care advocate and founder of the Childcare Resource and Research Unit.“It’s inescapable.” After-school care an extra worry for B.C.

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Want a full economic recovery? Childcare is critical, report says

coronavirus pandemic, child care is key.That’s the message from the authors of a new report published Tuesday by the Institute for Gender and the Economy at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, in partnership with YWCA Canada.The report proposes what it calls a “feminist recovery plan” for the country and highlights the critical need for a focus on ensuring no workers are sidelined in the recovery from a pandemic economic and health crisis that data shows has hit women and vulnerable communities harder than men.

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Alberta, Ottawa agree to one-year child-care funding extension amid COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic.For Alberta, the one-year deal will mean more than $45 million this fiscal year to create new licensed child-care spaces through capital and program grants and subsidies for more lower-income families.

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Nova Scotia child-care centres facing layoffs to stay afloat until September

coronavirus pandemic. Even with provincial funding, which helped facilities reopen on June 15, directors now worry they won’t stay viable until September.Margot Nickerson, an early childhood educator at St.

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Peterborough child care operators refuse to reopen until province reinstates funding

coronavirus lockdowns until the province meets conditions over funding.On Friday morning, a rally of staff representing child care and daycare centres gathered outside Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith’s constituency office.

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Daycares open during pandemic see low turnout of essential workers’ kids

A number of Winnipeg child care centres — home-based or otherwise — are remaining open during the coronavirus pandemic to provide care for the children of workers whose jobs are deemed essential.

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Child care gets a boost amidst essential service designation by B.C. government

The B.C. government is enhancing financial support for child care operators, after many raised concerns about staying open during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Child care providers raise coronavirus concerns in letter to B.C. premier

The B.C. Child Care Owners Association is raising concerns about the province’s requirement to keep daycares open.

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