Cities pressure Ontario to join national child-care plan By Aidan Chamandy. Published on Jul 22, 2021 4:50pm Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce, pictured in September 2020 alongside federal Families Minister Ahmed Hussen, is hearing from ever-more cities that want Ontario to sign on to Ottawa s child-care plan. (Richard Lautens/Toronto Star)
Ontario’s two largest cities are urging the provincial government to sign on to Ottawa’s national child-care program.
Ottawa city council recently approved a motion to ask the province to start negotiating with the federal government regarding its national child-care program, which will cost taxpayers $30 billion.
The program was unveiled in the 2021 federal budget, which promised the money over five years. By 2022, Ottawa’s plan is to cut child-care fees in half. By 2026, it’s to make child care cost $10 a day, on average, per child.
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Youth advocates push for better support for young people aging out of foster care during COVID-19 pandemic
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Advocates for youth in government care are calling on the provinces and territories to continue supporting those who are aging out of the child welfare system and trying to make it on their own during the pandemic. Melanie Doucet, senior researcher at the Child Welfare League of Canada, said vulnerable youth who transition out of foster care or a group home, at age 18 or 19 in most jurisdictions, already experience higher rates of unemployment, homelessness and mental health issues. It s almost impossible for them to find a job, and housing is really difficult to come by, Doucet said from Montreal, where she is also a McGill University researcher studying the effects on youth aging out of care during the pandemic.