Saskatchewan government amends childcare law hoping to increase capacity [Video]

The province is making legislative changes in hopes of build additional capacity for the federally-subsidized $10 a day childcare spaces across Saskatchewan.

On Monday, the province announced a series of amendments to the Child Care Act to allow for greater access to affordable early learning and childcare.

“This is one of the pressures that we’re facing in our province,” Education Minister Everett Hindley said.

“The legislative changes that we have introduced we feel will help with that, and help us to be able to try to find and create more childcare spaces in this province to address some of the waiting lists, pressures and demand that we have right across Saskatchewan.”

The goal is to not only expand an organization’s ability to develop more spaces while also allowing more spaces to become licensed with “alternative child-care services,” the province said in a news release.

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