YMCA to expand daycare spaces across GTA

The YMCA is increasing its licensed child care spaces by almost 10 per cent across six GTA regions.

By September, the charity hopes to offer 20,000 spots in Dufferin, Durham, Halton, Toronto, Peel and York.

“June is an important time for parents to arrange child care for their kids in the fall,” said Linda Cottes, the senior vice president of child and family development at the YMCA of Greater Toronto in a press release.

“We are partnering with local school boards to ensure parents have before-and-after-school programs available to support full day kindergarten. We are also rapidly converting sites to add highly demanded infant and toddler spaces.”

 

The new spaces will include before-and-after-school programs, preschool, and infant and toddler care for infants and children up to 12 years old.

The introduction of full-day kindergarten disrupted many child care providers across the province, the YMCA said in its release.

“The YMCA fully embraces the full day kindergarten vision because we know early learning is one of the best investments for developing young children,” said Cottes. “However, the current Day Nurseries Act, introduced in 1946, is outdated and the full day kindergarten implementation has just highlighted the need to modernize the current act.”

Click here for more information on the YMCA’s child care and family programs.

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