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What is Manitoba's child care system all about?

Licensed child care in Manitoba helps support parents and create the best possible outcomes for children. The Manitoba Child Care Program of Family Services and Housing oversees the licensed child care system. Licensed child care includes full-time infant and preschool centres, school age centres, and licensed nursery schools, as well as child care in homes.

Manitoba currently has over 1,100 licensed child care facilities with about 24,500 spaces throughout the province. It is estimated that more than 30,000 children, including over 1,200 children with disabilities, use these spaces each year. Some attend part-time licensed nursery schools. Others attend licensed child care centres or homes on a part-time or full-time basis.

In 1983, The Community Child Care Standards Act was established to define the types of child care settings that require licensing. The Act and its regulations also ensure that child care in licensed centres and homes meets certain minimum standards, including the number of trained ECEs required to work in centres or nursery schools.

Regulations ensure child-focused, play-based, age-appropriate programming. Centres must provide a variety of activities, as well as space and equipment for creative art, music, science, dramatic play, reading, fine motor, large motor, blocks, water, sand and construction.

The Government of Manitoba recently announced its Five-Year Plan for Child Care. The plan sets very specific targets for improving the child care system by 2007. Among its many initiatives, 5,000 funded child care spaces will be created and an additional 450 ECEs will be trained. It also committed to increasing ECE wages by 10 per cent over the five-year period. ECEs are, and will continue to be, in high demand.

 

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