coronavirus pandemic. Even with provincial funding, which helped facilities reopen on June 15, directors now worry they won’t stay viable until September.Margot Nickerson, an early childhood educator at St.
Joseph Child Care Centre in Halifax and Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) member, says she was happy to hear the government’s initial commitment to child-care centres during COVID-19.“We felt that they were acknowledging that we were an essential service, that the economy couldn’t start functioning if families didn’t have child care,” Nickerson says.
Coronavirus forces child-care centres to reduce capacity, leaving parents scrambling According to an emailed statement from Gary Andrea, a spokesperson for Nova Scotia’s education.