Over 600 more $10-a-day child-care spaces to open on Avalon Peninsula

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Newfoundland and Labrador continues to grow its $10-a-day child-care program. On Friday, Early Childhood Development Minister Bernard Davis announced 631 caller spaces.

16 pre-kindergarten programs are included successful the expansion

Jenna Head · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 11, 2025 2:30 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 11

Man lasting successful beforehand of daycare smiling

Over 600 more $10-a-day child-care spaces are expected to unfastened connected the Avalon Peninsula.

Early Childhood Development Minister Bernard Davis announced the enlargement astatine Dream With Us, a caller child-care centre successful Conception Bay South connected Friday.

He said the caller spaces are divided betwixt 27 aboriginal learning and child-care centres. Sixteen of the 27 centres are simple schools that connection pre-kindergarten programs. Details tin beryllium recovered connected the province's aboriginal learning gateway.

"When we make abstraction successful 1 of our schools, for example, a pre-kindergarten space for a four-year-old, that creates different abstraction successful a daycare oregon an aboriginal learning centre that is presently full," Davis told reporters.

All of the centres are present unfastened oregon acceptable to unfastened successful the coming months.

However, Davis said determination are sometimes delays, which tin beryllium frustrating for parents.

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New kid attraction options volition construe to much than 600 caller $10-a-day spaces, curate says

Some 27 aboriginal learning and child-care projects are expected to bring implicit 600 caller $10-a-day child-care spaces to the Avalon Peninsula. Early Childhood Development Minister Bernard Davis said Friday the developments volition bring the fig of affordable child-care spaces to implicit 11,000 crossed Newfoundland and Labrador.

He said those delays are often extracurricular of the government's control.

"We privation to determination adjacent faster due to the fact that I person a young family and I recognize the pressures that it puts connected them," Davis said.

Roughly 11,200 child-care spaces are presently operating astatine $10-a-day crossed Newfoundland and Labrador done the province's woody with the national government's child-care agreement.

The programme volition beryllium successful spot until March 31, 2031.

"We put astir $110 cardinal a twelvemonth successful aboriginal learning successful our province," Davis said. "This is the astir important happening we tin bash arsenic a government, arsenic a people, is however we bid and amended our youngest to springiness them the champion commencement successful society."

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