If you are in Canada, your child’s safety and care are in danger. Soon, you will be unable to trace any childcare professionals in Canada. Canada has a worker shortage to the level that even getting $10/day child care workers are getting tough.
Agencies that run daycares say they‘re so short of early childhood educators that they doubt the national program of $10–a–day child care can run for long.
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Trudeau’s government is promising to give all families in Canada access to high-quality childcare at an average price of $10 per day. But this seems unlikely.
Its plan calls for creating 250,000 new child-care spots by 2026. But the shortage of people willing to work in the system is putting that plan in significant jeopardy, says Carolyn Ferns, policy coordinator at the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care.
The YMCA, the largest childcare provider in the Toronto area, has so few employees that only 16,000 children are currently enrolled in its 35,000 licenced places.
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Jamison Steeve, chief strategic officer for the YMCA of Greater Toronto, said the figure equates to 19,000 children and families lacking access to care. “Our wait lists are caused by a lack of care providers, not a lack of facilities or funding.”
According to Steeve, the YMCA needs roughly 1,400 employees to expand to handle the anticipated rise in demand for the $10 per day programme and to return to its pre-pandemic capacity for child care.
