$10 daycare could help reduce the gender wage gap and boost women’s participation in the labour force, but staffing, space shortages could limit its impact, says the report
A report from Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office concludes that the implementation of $10-a-day child care has the potential to improve women’s participation in the work force and reduce the gender wage gap, but warns that the effect could be limited without adequate spaces and staffing.
“You need child care spaces to handle the number of expected people who will want to get the spaces. The other challenge is child care staffing problems. If you talk to any child care operator now, they will tell you their number-one problem is staff shortages.” Ontario’s agreement with the federal government includes funding to increase child care staffing levels. The province has funded tuition grantsOntario Education Minister Stephen Lecce acknowledged that the government has more work to do if it hopes to bring fees down to an average of $10 per day and increase the number of child care spaces. He said the government has already reduced fees by half and plans to add more than 80,000 spaces, including 30,000 in schools.
She said setting up an affordable child care program, such as the one planned in Ontario, takes time, and that the work should have started long ago. She argued that the pay for child care workers is too low.
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