By-election candidates urged to support new provincial funding to keep Junior Citizens open

SUDBURY, Ont. — Municipal child care workers today urged Sudbury provincial by-election candidates to support their call for new “mitigation” funding to keep Junior Citizens Child Care Centre open. Despite Sudbury families’ increasing need for after-hours child care and appeals by parents using the centre not to close it, the City of Greater Sudbury council…

Increased Ontario government oversight, regulation for unlicensed child care long-overdue

Changes to child care legislation intended to increase oversight and regulation for unlicensed and home daycare to make them safer, are urgently needed and long-overdue, CUPE Ontario said, following the recent provincial government announcement. Prompted by the recent deaths of children in unregulated home daycares which are currently not subject to standards, inspections or ratios…