{"id":68148,"date":"2026-05-27T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&#038;p=68148"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:33:23","slug":"funding-available-for-school-age-operational-start-up-expenses","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/funding-available-for-school-age-operational-start-up-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Available for School Age Operational Start-up Expenses"},"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\/action\/\" rel=\"tag\">For Action<\/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\/2026-05-29\/\" rel=\"tag\">Friday May 29 2026<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Funding Available for School Age Operational Start-up Expenses<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Operational Start-up Fund is for school districts who received child care capital funding through the Ministry of Infrastructure, or their selected operator, to expand or create new school age care programs on school grounds. Successful projects will receive $1,500 for each new school age care space, up to a maximum of $150,000 per site, to help cover initial operating expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content?id=9E7BC8021730437A9F25B50E8E3387E9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Operational Start-Up Fund for School Age Care web page<\/a>&nbsp;. For questions, please contact the Child Care Capital Grants team at <a href=\"tel:1-888-338-6622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1-888-338-6622<\/a> (option 5) or&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:cccf@gov.bc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cccf@gov.bc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Operational Start-up Fund is for school districts who received child care capital funding through the Ministry of Infrastructure, or their selected operator, to expand or create new school age care programs on school grounds. Successful projects will receive $1,500 for each new school age care space, up to a maximum of $150,000 per &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/funding-available-for-school-age-operational-start-up-expenses\/\" 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":[348],"release_date":[1632],"division":[1418],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[308,448,323],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-68148","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-action","release_date-2026-05-29","division-ccpp","target_bulletin-district-dmb","audiences-early-learning-and-child-care-leads","audiences-facility-leads","audiences-secretary-treasurers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/68148","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\/68148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68441,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/68148\/revisions\/68441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68148"}],"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=68148"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=68148"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=68148"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=68148"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=68148"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=68148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}