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Childcare platforms

Here's what the 2024 NB election parties are promising.
We don't have any PC policies on Childcare.

Liberal

  • Improve working conditions and increase wages for Early Childhood Educators
  • Increase financial support for ECE students
  • Reduce administrative and regulatory burden on childcare operators

    "Reduce the administrative and regulatory burden on childcare operators to enhance their ability to provide the best care possible for children." — Team Holt: Focused On You, retrieved 2024-10-12

Green

  • Create 3,400 new childcare spaces in both urban and rural areas, with fair and equitable funding for Francophone centres

    "With the support of federal funding, create 3,400 new child care spaces in both urban and rural areas while ensuring fair and equitable funding for Francophone centres." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Provide interest-free loans to cooperative and non-profit childcare facilities to assist with start-up costs
  • Increase wages and benefits and achieve pay equity for Early Childcare Educators

    "Improve recruitment and retention of early childcare educators by increasing wages and benefits and achieve pay equity." — Election Platform 2024, retrieved 2024-10-12

  • Create support services for childcare centres to meet the needs of neurodivergent children

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