Manitoba childcare providers will be able to start taking in more children as part of phase two of the province’s reopening plan.
Phase two will allow providers to take up to 24 children in a room, plus staff, or 24 children in each segregated room. Strict sanitary and safety procotols will be in effect. “If the child is showing any symptoms or had been in contact with anyone showing symptoms, they would not be permitted to come into the child care program,” Manitoba Child Care Association executive director Jodie Kehl said.
For childcare centres that have 24 children in each individual rooms, staggered drop-off schedules will be in place along with separate entrances, exits and washrooms.