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GUELPH/WELLINGTON – The County of Wellington is a little more than half way to its provincially-directed target of new child care spaces.
In an update given to the joint city and county social services committee, the director of children’s early years Mandy Koroniak said 952 new child care spaces have been created in Guelph and Wellington County since the province gave the county a target of 1,721 in December 2022 to achieve by the end of 2026.
These new spaces are also all enrolled in the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program, which is a government program aimed at making child care more accessible and affordable with a phased approach to bring the cost down to $10 a day.
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“If there was a direction and desire in future years to plan for builds those could be incorporated into future budgets but at this point it would be municipal contribution.”