The Border City is getting a significant investment in child care from the province and the federal government. (file/battlefordsNOW)

By battlefordsNOW Staff

Family support

Lloydminster receiving two child care facilities

Mar 17, 2022 | 4:00 PM

New child care facilities are coming to Lloydminster.

The Governments of Canada and Saskatchewan announced the addition of 1,202 new licensed not-for-profit child care facility spaces in 21 Saskatchewan communities, including two in the Border City. This is part of an initiative to create 28,000 new child care spaces in the province by the end of March, 2026. The announcement follows the December expansion of 601 new spaces.​

“Every child deserves the best start in life,” Canada’s Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Karina Gould said in a media release. “These additional child care spaces will help grow our Canada-wide early learning and child care system, allowing more children and families from Saskatchewan to access high-quality, affordable, flexible and inclusive early learning and child care.”​

Education Minister Dustin Duncan added that the investment will “allow more opportunities for families to find accessible child care near them.”​

Families in Lloydminster will have access to Building Brains Early Learning Child Care Centres (ELC), which will employ around 40 early childhood educator positions. Building Brains ELC Centre will receive about $1.6 million for the new options in the Border City to cover around 180 spaces.

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The Canada-Saskatchewan Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement, signed in August 2021, provides a federal investment of nearly $1.1 billion over five years for child care in Saskatchewan. With an average of 50 per cent child care fee reductions already announced, the stated goal is to bring down average fees for regulated child care to $10-a-day four years from now.​

Among the nearly two-dozen other communities are receiving new spaces are Kindersley, Warman and Martensville.

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