News - Child Care

The Manitoba government is addressing the needs of children in the care of Child and Family Services by making a 10 per cent increase to basic maintenance rates.

Health-care facilities, schools and post-secondary institutions across the province will soon open new high-quality and flexible child-care spaces for children up to six years old thanks to a partnership between the governments of Canada and Manitoba.

Families with school-aged children in licensed, funded child-care facilities are now paying $10 a day for child care on non-school days as of December 8.

The Manitoba government has made amendments to the Child Care Regulation to increase the operating grants for all licensed and provincially funded early learning and child-care facilities.

The governments of Canada and Manitoba have partnered with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) to create a model for early childhood educators to help detect and prevent child abuse in Canada.

The province of Manitoba has announced that licensed and funded child-care facilities will be receiving a joint-government funding increase to support wages for child-care professionals.

The governments of Canada and Manitoba are allocating $13.5 million to help child-care centres expand infant and preschool spaces through the 2023-24 Renovation Expansion Grant.

The Manitoba government is increasing starting wages under Manitoba’s Early Learning and Child Care Wage Grid for the early childhood workforce in funded child-care facilities by $56.1 million effective July 1, 2023.

The province has announced that it has reached a historic milestone in which Manitoba families will pay a maximum of $10-a-day for children 12 years and under for regular hours of child care, beginning April 2.

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson, announced that Manitoba will achieve an average of $10-a-day regulated child care on April 2, – three years ahead of the national target. This milestone achievement could save families hundreds of dollars per child, per month on average.