N.S. has work to do on child-care action plan required to access millions in federal funds
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Chender said while parent fees have decreased and wages have increased modestly, there has not been a significant increase in child-care spaces in the province.
This has been challenging for children who don't have access to early childhood education and to parents who are unable to return to work because there is no child-care space for their children, Chender said.
She said there is a significant amount of federal money to help alleviate the problem that can't be released because the province hasn't submitted an action plan.
"It is deeply confusing and upsetting that the government would not be accessing that funding," Chender said.
"Regardless of the number of interviews that the minister has done, some of which I've heard, she has yet to address this question head-on of why they have not filed the action plan in order to receive the money to use that money to create more child-care spaces."
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