Parents of Regina child care centre given 7 weeks notice of closure – Regina | 24CA News
There was fallout Monday night time from the choice by a Regina early care centre to shut its doorways, a transfer that oldsters worry might occur anyplace in Saskatchewan.
Eden Care’s Saplings Early Learning Child Care Centre advised mother and father that its facility will shut on the finish of June.
With solely seven weeks’ discover of the closure, mother and father had been left feeling defeated.
“We were mad (because) in the climate nowadays, trying to find a space, let alone two spaces,” stated Patrick Denis, a father of two children who attend the kid care centre. “The quickest I could find was six months and the longest was three-to-five years.”
Parents with youngsters at Saplings wrote an in depth letter to the Eden Care Board of Directors explaining how this closure has negatively affected the households.
According to the letter, some mother and father are actually contemplating quitting their jobs as a result of it’s practically unattainable to get accepted into a brand new child-care facility inside seven weeks.
“Hold these facilities accountable,” Denis stated. “Like who’s to stop another daycare from just shutting down because they’re not making a profit off of it?”
The letter additionally calls on the Saskatchewan authorities and Ministry of Education to implement a minimal discover interval for closures, revisal of the inclusion grant for youngsters, and to create a complete child-care system within the province.
Denis stated he and the opposite mother and father know there’s nothing they’ll do to cease the ability from being shut down. He and his spouse lucked out and acquired two spots at a unique licensed facility however he is aware of there are nonetheless different mother and father on the market which are struggling and caught on lengthy waitlists.
“In today’s climate with the way everyone’s looking for cheap child care, either you get no child care or you’re paying double or triple for a private care home.”
Global News reached out to Eden Care and the Ministry of Education for remark however neither group responded earlier than deadline.
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