{"id":61546,"date":"2025-10-30T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&#038;p=61546"},"modified":"2025-11-28T07:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:36:05","slug":"school-amendment-act-receives-royal-assent","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/school-amendment-act-receives-royal-assent\/","title":{"rendered":"School Amendment Act Receives Royal Assent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group hide-on-main\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"taxonomy-action_or_info wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/action_or_info\/for-info\/\" rel=\"tag\">For Information<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-release_date article-release-date wp-block-post-terms\"><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__prefix\">Published <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/release_date\/2025-11-28\/\" rel=\"tag\">Friday November 28 2025<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">School Amendment Act Receives Royal Assent<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Changes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leg.bc.ca\/parliamentary-business\/overview\/43rd-parliament\/1st-session\/bills\/1st_read\/gov19-1.htm\">School Act <\/a>are now in effect, meaning school districts in B.C. can operate more kinds of child care that families need. This includes providing child care to children of all ages and during non-school days like winter, spring and summer breaks. School districts will also be able to recover reasonable costs to help keep child care programs sustainable, similar to how non-profit child care centers operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to the School Act are now in effect, meaning school districts in B.C. can operate more kinds of child care that families need. This includes providing child care to children of all ages and during non-school days like winter, spring and summer breaks. School districts will also be able to recover reasonable costs to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/school-amendment-act-receives-royal-assent\/\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" >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":[1527],"division":[1418],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-61546","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-for-info","release_date-2025-11-28","division-ccpp","target_bulletin-district-dmb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/61546","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/61546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62293,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/61546\/revisions\/62293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61546"}],"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=61546"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=61546"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=61546"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=61546"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=61546"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=61546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}