{"id":61601,"date":"2025-10-31T15:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&#038;p=61601"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:58:23","slug":"bill-19-school-amendment-act","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/bill-19-school-amendment-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill 19 School Amendment Act"},"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\/2025-10-10\/\" rel=\"tag\">Friday October 10 2025<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Bill 19 School Amendment Act<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 7, government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leg.bc.ca\/parliamentary-business\/overview\/43rd-parliament\/1st-session\/bills\/1st_read\/gov19-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">introduced amendments to the School Act<\/a> to enable boards of education to directly offer a broader range of child care services on school property, and to fully recoup reasonable costs incurred by doing so. If passed, the amendments will allow boards to offer school-age child care year-round, like on school breaks, and to younger children in the community. See more detailed information in the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gov.bc.ca\/32875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 7, government introduced amendments to the School Act to enable boards of education to directly offer a broader range of child care services on school property, and to fully recoup reasonable costs incurred by doing so. If passed, the amendments will allow boards to offer school-age child care year-round, like on school breaks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/bill-19-school-amendment-act\/\" 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":[1501],"division":[1403],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-61601","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-for-info","release_date-2025-10-10","division-wag","target_bulletin-district-dmb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/61601","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/61601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61616,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/61601\/revisions\/61616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61601"}],"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=61601"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=61601"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=61601"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=61601"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=61601"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=61601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}