Ontario Cutting Funds to Day Cares Not Enrolled in Federal $10-a-Day Program

About 500 daycare centres in Ontario that are not participating in the $10-a-day child care program will soon lose provincial funding. In an Aug. 15 letter from the Ontario Ministry of Education to child care centres around the province, assistant deputy minister Holly Moran gave details about the $10-a-day program, known as the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care program (CWELCC). She said in the letter that as of 2025, child care centres not participating in CWELCC will no longer receive general operating, fee subsidy, or wage enhancement grants. “Starting in 2025, as the age 0-5 portion of the routine funding is being integrated into cost-based funding under CWELCC to ensure the success of that system, routine funding must not be used to support such licensees, unless it relates to fee subsidies,” Moran wrote....