More families in B.C will save thousands of dollars each year as more than 700 child care spaces move into the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program this month. These spaces will help reduce costs for families and further increase access to high-quality, affordable child care.
The newly approved $10 a Day spaces are being offered at 25 child care centres throughout the province, including Houston, Squamish, Surrey, and Vancouver.
For this intake, government’s focus was to prioritize new $10 a Day centres in communities that do not yet have access to the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program or have a low number of $10 a Day spaces compared to the region’s population density. More spaces will be converted to the program over the next few weeks, bringing B.C. closer to the goal of 15,000 $10 a Day ChildCareBC spaces by spring 2024.