Potential new program attempts to combat local daycare crisis
A long waiting list for a daycare space in the Battlefords has prompted an organization into the planning stages of creating an extended hours daycare and it wants the public’s opinion.
The Battlefords Indian Metis Friendship Centre will be holding a community wide meeting on March 7 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m at the centre, located on 960-103rd St. in North Battleford. There will be an open discussion of the possibility of a new daycare centre in the Battlefords.
In a press release, the centre wrote there should be more licensed daycare spaces in the area and wants the community to confirm their beliefs.
Crystal Swyryda, the director of Learning Tree Child Development Centre in North Battleford, didn’t need the public’s confirmation on the shortage, as she knows the community is in desperate need of more licenses.