YWCA steps in to save Elmsdale daycare as N.S. struggles with child care shortage
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NDP Leader Claudia Chender said the numbers are "embarrassing."
"Instead of taking responsibility, essentially we hear a shell game with numbers going on from the minister," she told reporters in Halifax.
The province has a "population that is exploding, we have a cost of living crisis and we have a housing crisis and in the midst of that, people cannot find daycare for their children."
She called the agreement with the federal government a "failure" so far.
"I suspect it's as much about management as it is about money," she said. "I think that this is being mishandled. I think it's not getting the attention it deserves and not being treated with the urgency it needs to be treated with."
Nova Scotia Education Minister Becky Druhan said the province is feeling the pressure from people in the child-care sector retiring.
But she said the government is investing in child care, and there is funding available for the government to take over privately-run daycares.
"So we're making use of that funding and we're making use of the supports of partners in the system, both private operators and not-for-profit providers to preserve many spaces," she said.
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