More Affordable Childcare Spaces Coming To Campbell River

More $10-per day childcare spaces are opening up in the North Island.

Nearly 150 childcare spaces in communities across the North Island are converting to $10 a day spaces, where fees are capped at a maximum of $200 a month per child.

It includes 25 spaces in Campbell River at Leishman Early Learning and Care, and The Lighthouse Early Learning Centre in Comox, where 16 child care spaces will have fees dramatically reduced for parents.

Spaces in the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program reduce the average cost of childcare from $1,000 a month at participating facilities (for full-time, centre-based infant care) to $200 a month, saving families approximately $800 a month per child on average.

The newly approved $10-a-day spaces are being offered at 61 child care centres throughout B.C., bringing the total number of $10 a Day spaces in B.C. to nearly 11,000.

In addition to these spaces, the Province, with federal funding support, is helping approximately 69,000 families with the cost of child care at centres that are not part of the $10-a-day program through child care fee reductions of up to $550 more per month per child.

These savings, which kicked in on December 1st, are in addition to the $350 per month per child that families have been saving through the Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative since 2018.