Jamison Steeve News Today

Increase will make Ontario’s childcare workers among the four highest paid across the country, but critics say it is not enough to address staffing shortage threatening success of $10-a-day childcare program

The Toronto High Park YMCA Child Care Centre says they will not be able to continue offering infant care at its Dundas Street location

Improving pay and working conditions are the most crucial ingredients in addressing the shortage of child-care workers, advocates say.

Agencies that run daycares say they’re so short of early childhood educators that they doubt the national program of $10-a-day child care can be delivered to all the kids who will need a spot.