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Eight new $10-a-day child care spaces are available at Kiddo House Child Care Centre in Richmond.

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Eight more $10-a-day child care spaces available in Richmond

By Richmond Sentinel

Published 1:39 PDT, Mon October 3, 2022

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More families in Richmond will save thousands of dollars per year as eight local child care spaces convert to the $10-a-day program, helping families get ahead and building high-quality, affordable, and accessible child care as a core service in B.C.

"As a parent of young children, I understand the challenges many families face when it comes to high child care costs," said Richmond South Centre MLA Henry Yao. "By saving families up to $800 a month per child, I know these $10-a-day spaces will make a real difference."

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

The $10-a-day program expansion represents further progress in partnership with the federal government under the Canada-B.C. Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement. To support the goal of ensuring access to high-quality, affordable, and inclusive early learning and child care, the Government of Canada is contributing $3.2 billion for child care in B.C. over five years through the agreement.

"As a new $10-a-day program, I feel deeply grateful for being a British Columbian and a child care provider," said Jiacy Chen, manager of Kiddo House Child Care Centre. "We not only enjoy the beautiful view here but also provide quality and affordable child care services. I want to thank for our thoughtful government for this funding."

The eight newly approved $10-a-day spaces at Kiddo House Child Care Centre in Richmond are infant-toddler spaces.

"It gives me immense pleasure, and I am sure other parents feel the same to see what you've achieved for all of us and our daycare," said Saurabh Raina, parent of a child at Kiddo House Child Care Centre. "Thank you all so much."

More $10-a-day spaces will be created over the next few months. By the end of the year, the program will expand the number of $10-a-Day ChildCareBC spaces available for families in B.C. from 6,500 in April to approximately 12,500.

"We doubled the number of $10-a-day spaces earlier this year and will be nearly doubling yet again by the end of 2022," said Katrina Chen, B.C. Minister of State for Child Care. "Affordable child care can be life changing, and we're one step closer to making that a reality for all families in B.C. The $10-a-day program and the significant fee reductions recently announced are both part of our plan to make child care a core service that every family can access and afford."

In addition to these spaces, the province, with federal funding support, is helping parents 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 are in addition to the $350 per month per child that families have been saving through the Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative since 2018, and approximately 69,000 families will benefit.

Since 2018, the province has invested $2.7 billion in the 10-year ChildCareBC plan.

For more information about existing $10-a-Day ChildCareBC sites and spaces, criteria, guidelines and priority areas under this intake, visit gov.bc.ca/childcare10aDaysites