Manitoba Government News Release: Information Services, Room 29, Legislative Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0V8 Telephone: (204) 945-3746 Fax: (204) 945-3988

November 03, 2005

 

$1.6 MILLION SUPPORTS 699 CHILD-CARE SPACES IN BRANDON AND RURAL MANITOBA
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Improvements Also to be Provided To Nursery-school Program

MINNEDOSA—Manitoba will provide more than $1.6 million in additional, new annual support for up to 699 licensed child-care spaces in Brandon and across rural Manitoba, Family Services and Housing Minister Christine Melnick announced today.

The details of this stage of the child-care action plan for Brandon and rural areas include annual operating grant support for licensed spaces at 52 sites (see attached list).

"This marks the next major stage of our child-care action plan which will help further improve quality, affordability and accessibility of child care," said Melnick. "We continue to build upon Manitoba’s vision for early learning and child care and meet the early childhood development priorities of Manitobans."

The minister has announced the next major stage in Manitoba’s child-care action plan will see the investment of at least $5.75 million for up to 3,168 licensed spaces this year which will help further improve quality, affordability and accessibility of child care. Of the 3,100 spaces, 750 are designated for areas of the province in high need of more spaces, and will be funded next year. Details of these new spaces will be determined in 2006.

On April 29, Manitoba and Canada signed an agreement called Moving Forward on Early Learning and Child Care, the first of its kind in Canada. The total budget for Manitoba’s child-care program, including the children with disabilities program, is now $103 million.

In July, details of $14.4 million in support were announced of which $11.5 million was to increase wages and benefits for early childhood educators, including those who care for children with disabilities, providing for annual salaries of approximately $27,000 to $30,000. That announcement also noted income levels for family child-care providers would be improved and funds for recruitment and training of more early childhood educators would be increased by $2.9 million.

In total, over the next five years, Manitoba’s share of the federal government’s support is estimated to be $176 million. Manitoba is committed to spending all new federal funds on early learning and child care.

In addition, support of $140,000 for up to 200 nursery school spaces will also be provided in 2006. This is part of Manitoba’s plan that calls for the existing nursery-school program for three and four year olds to be expanded and more closely linked to other early childhood development initiatives. The nursery schools identified for this expanded funding will be determined by next year.

This new approach will not only support 200 nursery-school spaces, but will allow for parents’ fees to be reduced to no more than $5 per session.

More Manitoba families will be able to access nursery school programs and more subsidies will be available for low- or middle-income families to help with the cost of nursery school programs.

Families, including those with a stay-at-home parent who wish to enrol their child in a part-time nursery school program, will no longer be required to demonstrate a need for a subsidy based on work or school.

In addition to collaborating with the federal government, Manitoba will continue to work with the child-care community and parents and will consult with Manitobans in building a high-quality, early-learning and child-care system that is available to all families who need it.

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

New, annual operating grant support for 52 child-care centres

in Brandon and rural areas

·1 Brandon RHA Day Care – eight infant and 24 preschool spaces

$136,448

·2 Tiger Hills Com. Resource Centre – eight infant and 20 preschool spaces

$124,800

·3 Shilo Military Family Resource Centre – four infant, 25 preschool and 15 school-age spaces

$113,191

·4 Shoal Lake Kid’s Club – eight infant and 16 preschool spaces

$113,152

·5 TLC Centre Inc. – four infant and 22 preschool spaces

$97,344

·6 Minto Nursery School Inc. operating as Mini Mustang Corral – four infant and
12 preschool spaces

$66,275

·7 Cantwaitokumbac Child Care Centre – four infant and 12 preschool spaces

$66,275

·8 Parkside Children's Centre Youth Building – 20 preschool spaces

$58,240

·9 Tiny Turtle Playroom – 20 preschool spaces

$57,631

·10 Elm Creek Stay and Play Centre Inc. – four infant and eight preschool spaces

$56,576

·11 Parkside Children's Centre – six infant spaces

$49,920

·12 Laurier Play Zone, CFAN – four infant and four preschool spaces

$44,928

·13 Parkland Campus Kids – 16 preschool spaces

$44,644

·14 Valleyview Kids Zone – 36 school age spaces

$33,408

·15 Kiddie Sunshine Centre – four infant spaces

$32,305

·16 Riverton Daycare Inc. – eight preschool and eight school-age spaces

$31,240

·17 Portage Day Care Centre Inc. – 10 preschool spaces

$29,120

·18 Russell Lots of Tots – nine preschool spaces

$26,208

·19 Fuzzy Bears Inc. School Age Program – 27 school-age spaces

$26,096

·20 Winnipeg Beach Tiny Tots Inc. – four preschool and 15 school-age spaces

$26,056

·21 Play Penn Co-op Inc. – 25 school-age spaces

$24,825

·22 Garderie Jolys Co-op – three infant spaces

$24,228

·23 Killarney Kiddie Korner – eight preschool spaces

$23,296

·24 Rhineland Child Care Centre – eight preschool spaces

$23,296

·25 Richer Day Care – eight preschool spaces

$22,322

·26 Swan River Day Care Centre – four preschool and 12 school-age spaces

$22,297

·27 Teulon Day Care Inc. – seven preschool spaces

$20,384

·28 Fisher Branch Care-a-Lot for Tots Inc. - School Age Program – 20 school-age spaces

$19,860

·29 Busy Nest Day Care operating as Maverick Kids Club – 20 school-age spaces

$18,885

·30 Gilles Play and Learn Centre Inc. (Child Care in School) – six preschool spaces

$17,472

·31 Grandview Tiny Treasures – two infant spaces

$16,640

·32 Les Petits du Bois Jolys Inc. – 15 school-age spaces

$14,895

·33 Teulon Day Care School Age Program – 15 school-age spaces

$14,895

·34 Treasure Keepers Children's Centre Inc. – 15 school-age spaces

$14,895

·35 Dauphin Ukrainian Nursery School Smith Jackson Kids Club – 15 school-age spaces

$14,895

·36 Souris Co-op Day Care – 15 school-age spaces

$13,920

·37 Lundar Day Care Centre – four preschool spaces

$11,648

·38 Arborg School Age Child Care Co-op Inc. – 10 school-age spaces

$9,930

·39 Springfield Learning Centre – 10 school-age spaces

$9,280

·40 Portage Day Care – nine school-age spaces

$8,352

·41 Morden Community Child Care – eight school-age spaces

$7,944

·42 Dauphin School Age Day Care – two preschool spaces

$5,824

·43 Kinder Korner Learning Centre – two preschool spaces

$5,580

·44 La Garderie cooperative Les Amis de la Source – 20 nursery school spaces

$5,420

·45 Beausejour Kids Centre – five school-age spaces

$4,965

·46 Hand In Hand Day Care – one preschool space

$2,912

·47 Garderie Les Petits Amis – three school-age spaces

$2,784

·48 Caring and Crayons – seven nursery school spaces

$1,897

·49 Les P'tits Papillons Inc. – five nursery school spaces

$1,355

·50 Erickson Kiddie Kollege – two nursery school spaces

$542

·51 3-4-5 Nursery Inc. – two nursery school spaces

$542

·52 Interlake Co-op Nursery – two nursery school spaces

$542

·53 Selkirk Nursery School – one nursery school space

$259

TOTAL RURAL

$1,620,096

 

 

 

 

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