News Items tag as: Childcare

Kamloops daycare with hundreds on waitlist plans expansion
September 24, 2024 - 4:30 PM

A Kamloops daycare planning an expansion has a waitlist nearing 1,000.
$2 million for new school-based daycare slots in Penticton
May 13, 2024 - 11:30 AM

There are new childcare spaces at a daycare on elementary school grounds in Penticton.
Kelowna's Childhood Connections fighting to keep its doors open
April 09, 2024 - 7:00 PM

Childhood Connections, a not-for-profit organization in Kelowna that offers several childcare resources, has lost its government funding after it was diverted to the YMCA of Southern Interior.
'MORE THAN OUR MORTGAGE:' Kelowna daycare boosted rates to $1,700 per month
December 11, 2023 - 7:00 AM

Parents at a Kelowna day care are looking for answers after fees were raised $800 for many kids in the program to $1,700 per child, per month — after a $900 government rebate.
Why an Okanagan family is moving back to Vancouver to find childcare
December 01, 2023 - 7:30 AM

The state of childcare in the Okanagan seems to have reached a crisis point and parents are being put in near-impossible situations.
Parents fight back against B.C. defunding Kelowna child development centre
February 01, 2023 - 6:00 AM

There’s an old adage: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Kelowna child development centre fighting closure by provincial government
January 26, 2023 - 3:32 PM

Kelowna’s Starbright Children’s Development Centre has been helping preschool children with special needs for 57 years but that’s about to end for the non-profit organization now that the provincial government has awarded a multi-million dollar contract to a private, for-profit business to create a “Family Connection Centre.”
Little recourse for B.C. parents overcharged for daycare
December 06, 2022 - 6:00 AM

Parents who believe they're getting overcharged by their daycare are worried about losing their kid’s spot if they complain to loudly.
B.C. government creating 240 childcare spaces in Okanagan
April 21, 2022 - 10:51 AM

The province is creating 240 new childcare spaces in throughout the Okanagan.
'Crisis situation': New Kamloops daycare fills quickly, underlines childcare crunch
September 22, 2021 - 6:30 AM

A new childcare centre is opening in Kamloops after one and a half years of preparing the building and it still won't meet the need for childcare spaces in the city.
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