{"id":52923,"date":"2025-02-07T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&p=52923"},"modified":"2025-02-07T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T00:41:02","slug":"important-timelines-for-the-2025-2026-child-care-operating-funding-child-care-fee-reduction-initiative-and-early-childhood-educator-wage-enhancement","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/important-timelines-for-the-2025-2026-child-care-operating-funding-child-care-fee-reduction-initiative-and-early-childhood-educator-wage-enhancement\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Timelines for the 2025\/2026 Child Care Operating Funding, Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative and Early Childhood Educator Wage Enhancement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Published <\/span>Friday February 07 2025<\/a><\/div>\n\n

Important Timelines for the 2025\/2026 Child Care Operating Funding, Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative and Early Childhood Educator Wage Enhancement<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Together, Government and child care providers are reducing fees for families and sustaining child care services in communities throughout British Columbia. Child Care Operating Funding (CCOF) assists providers with the day-to-day costs of running a licensed child care facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Applications for the 2025\/26 CCOF renewal are now open through\u00a0My ChildCareBC Services<\/a>. To ensure providers have time to plan, the\u00a02025-26 CCFRI funding guidelines<\/a>\u00a0were shared ahead of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A list of key CCOF renewal dates for 2025\/26 is available on the Apply for or renew Child Care Operating Funding<\/a> web page. As a reminder, 2025-26 CCOF Funding Agreements are sent to providers to sign on February 25. March 10 is the last day to sign 2025-26 CCOF Funding Agreements to ensure funding is in place for April 1, 2025, and providers can start to pre-claim starting March 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For 2025\/26,\u00a0fee increase limits<\/a>\u00a0remain at 3% of the regional median fee. These limits support families to access affordable child care. In addition to the 3% fee increase, providers are supported through base funding, fee reductions for families, provider payments and the Early Childhood Educator Wage Enhancement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CCOF program contact centre is open to provide support to child care providers from 8:30 am-4:30 pm PST, Monday to Friday, at 1\u00a0888\u00a0338\u20116622 (Option 2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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$10 a Day ChildCareBC applicants:<\/strong> Child care providers who recently applied to the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program will be notified directly about the status of their application. Successful applicants sign a new $10 a Day ChildCareBC funding agreement will receive funding through the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program rather than the CCOF program.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Together, Government and child care providers are reducing fees for families and sustaining child care services in communities throughout British Columbia. Child Care Operating Funding (CCOF) assists providers with the day-to-day costs of running a licensed child care facility. Applications for the 2025\/26 CCOF renewal are now open through\u00a0My ChildCareBC Services. To ensure providers have … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"action_or_info":[353],"release_date":[1316],"division":[393],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[308,298],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-52923","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-for-info","release_date-2025-02-07","division-ccd","target_bulletin-district-dmb","audiences-early-learning-and-child-care-leads","audiences-principals-vice-principals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/52923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/52923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53037,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/52923\/revisions\/53037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"action_or_info","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/action_or_info?post=52923"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=52923"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=52923"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=52923"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=52923"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=52923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}