{"id":53547,"date":"2025-02-28T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&p=53547"},"modified":"2025-02-28T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:49:15","slug":"important-timelines-for-the-2025-2026-child-care-operating-funding-child-care-fee-reduction-initiative-and-early-childhood-educator-wage-enhancement-2","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-2\/","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 28 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 renewal are now open through\u202fMy ChildCareBC Services<\/a>. To ensure providers have time to plan, the\u202f2025-26 CCFRI funding guidelines<\/a>\u202fwere 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. 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For 2025-26,\u202ffee increase limits<\/a>\u202fremain 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

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The CCOF program contact centre is open to provide support to child care providers from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm PST, Monday to Friday, at 1 888 338-6622 (Option 2). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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$10 a Day ChildCareBC applicants:<\/strong>\u202fChild care providers who recently applied to the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program will be notified directly about the status of their application. All applicants who have not yet received the results of their application are asked to apply for CCOF at the link above to ensure that no gaps in funding occur. <\/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 renewal are now open through\u202fMy ChildCareBC Services. To ensure providers have time … 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":[1323],"division":[393],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[308,298],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-53547","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-for-info","release_date-2025-02-28","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\/53547","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\/53547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53633,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/53547\/revisions\/53633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53547"}],"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=53547"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=53547"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=53547"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=53547"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=53547"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=53547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}