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Released on August 13, 2009
Today at the future home of the new Emerald Park Child Care, Deputy Premier and Education Minister Ken Krawetz announced that 12 agencies will be receiving $1.24 million in capital funding to develop 370 new child care spaces in 10 communities throughout the province.
"There continues to be an increase in demand for child care spaces across Saskatchewan as more parents find their place in the workforce or pursue post-secondary education," Krawetz said. "In the first two years of our mandate, we provided funding to develop 1,500 new licensed child care spaces, including capital funding for space development. Space development capital funding helps get new child care centres up and running, and ready to provide quality programming for children."
Emerald Park Child Care will be operated by the Awasis Child Care Co-operative. The co-operative, which runs the Awasis Child Care located on the University of Regina campus, is being allocated 55 new child care spaces and over $230,000 in one-time start-up funding, including $184,800 in provincial space development capital funding. The Emerald Park Child Care will be located in a newly built and renovated strip mall on Great Plains Road in Emerald Park, and is scheduled to open this November.
"The expansion of 55 child care spaces to Awasis Child Care was made possible today by the Government of Saskatchewan," said Awasis Child Care Centre Executive Director Sheila Pelletier. "This proud opportunity of growth within our organization will allow more University of Regina and First Nations University of Canada students to access our existing program on our Regina Campus, as well as generate the development of a much needed child care centre in the Rural Municipality of Edenwold. We are thrilled with the welcoming and positive support Awasis has received from the RM council, the White City School Community Council and community members."
The 370 spaces allocated today are part of the Government of Saskatchewan's commitment to fund 11,400 licensed child care spaces in Saskatchewan by the end of March, 2010.
In addition to the funding of new child care spaces, this fiscal year, the early learning and child care sector received an additional $1.2 million to support the training of early childhood educators and $375,000 for child care for children with exceptionally high diverse needs. Child care centres received a 7% annualized CBO lift in 2008-09 and an additional 3 % in 2009-10 to support recruitment and retention of early childhood educators.
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For more information, contact:
Sarah Still
Education
Regina
Phone: (306) 787-1613
Email: sarah.still@gov.sk.ca
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