Excerpts from the report:
The long term objective of the APB for childcare in Manitoba is to replace the current userfee, voluntary-sector market model. In its place, we shall build a publicly-funded system of high quality, universal and inclusive childcare services characterized by public management and community governance, while ensuring good wages for the women and men who care for our children.
The APB will create 2,000 new childcare spaces per year between 2006/07&em;2011/12, and 3,000 new spaces a year over the following five years, for a total of 25,000 new spaces by 2016.
We will create a total provincial capacity in 2016 of 50,000 spaces, or enough for about 1 in 3 children under the age of 12. Growth will be coordinated by a new non-profit, community-based
Childcare Development Corporation, charged with the task of planning expansion and new development.