"Expand school-based child care: Adding 7,200 before- and after-school spaces on school grounds to give more families access to seamless child care in places they already know and trust. This will be supported by $80 million to fund startup costs, renovations, and ongoing costs." — bcndp.ca, retrieved 2026-10-22

"Strengthen universal child care: Committing $250 million in new provincial dollars to leverage federal funding in the negotiations and work with the federal government and the childcare sector to:

1. Improve wages and working conditions for early childhood educators, including a provincial wage grid;
2. Expand the number of affordable child care spaces; and
3. Bring in a hard, universal fee cap like Ontario."

— bcndp.ca, retrieved 2026-10-22

"Bring in a hard, universal fee cap like Ontario." — bcndp.ca, retrieved 2026-10-22

"$10-a-day spaces first for the kids who need them most. A place on a waitlist is not child care. As we create more spaces, we will prioritize $10-a-day spaces for the children and families with the fewest alternatives and highest need." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

"24-hour child care. Create 24-hour spaces for shift workers and first responders, and encourage child care at or near worksites such as hospitals." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

"Put money in parents’ hands. Increase the BC Family Benefit and the Affordable Child Care Benefit so they reflect the cost-of-living pressure on young families, whether they choose child care outside the house, care at home with a parent, or help from family." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

"Faster credential recognition for child care providers. We will make it simple for educators, social workers, teachers and others with relevant experience to work as Early Childhood Educator assistants, especially over the summer months." — Ready to Deliver, retrieved 2026-10-18

"Commit to making quality $10-a-day child care available to families all across British Columbia by lifting the freeze on new $10-a-day enrolments introduced in Budget 202638, and use it as the foundation to later implement universal child care coverage by 2031." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

"Make registering for care simple; create one point of registration for $10/day spaces across BC, replacing today’s centre-by-centre waitlists so families no longer have to win a lottery to access affordable care." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

"Make it easier for early childhood centres to become, and remain, part of the $10/day spaces by reducing burdensome compliance paperwork. New spaces and priority registration going to public, non-profit and Indigenous-led centres, building a system rooted in community care, not private profit." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

"Create a universal early childhood education funding model to reduce administrative burdens for child care operators, allowing them to focus on quality care for children. This model will address wage grids, space creation, licensing, and staffing." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

"Work with child care operators to support ongoing growth in capacity through capital upgrades to schools and existing facilities, a workforce development plan, and sufficient operational flexibility to meet the needs of families now and in the future." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13