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     • Starting April 1, 2024, child care providers receiving Child Care Operating Funding can no longer charge waitlist or waitlist-related fees. This will ensure that waitlist fees are not a financial barrier for families seeking equitable access for child care throughout the province.
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   Are waitlist fees a financial barrier?

   • The changes are part of funding guidelines released by the provincial government this week, set to take effect over 2024 and 2025. "This will ensure that waitlist fees are not a financial barrier for families seeking equitable access for child care throughout the province," a provincial website said about the change.

   B.C. to prohibit daycare waitlist fees | CBC News

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   Can I charge waitlist fees if I receive child care operating funding?

   • Starting April 1, 2024, child care providers receiving Child Care Operating Funding can no longer charge waitlist or waitlist-related fees. This will ensure that waitlist fees are not a financial barrier for families seeking equitable access for child care throughout the province.

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   Should waitlist fees be eliminated for child care?

   • “Child care is expensive enough without fees adding up before families have secured child care,” said Mitzi Dean, Minister of State for Child Care. “Eliminating waitlist fees will mean that families no longer face having to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars simply to find a child care space.

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   What is a waitlist fee?

   • Waitlist and waitlist-related fees are any fees associated with adding, maintaining or altering a parent or child’s position on a waitlist to access child care services at a centre. The ministry has sole discretion to determine whether a fee is a waitlist fee.

   Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative - Information for providers

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   How much does it cost to put your name on a waitlist?

   • Approximately 5% of providers, mostly in metropolitan areas, were charging families a fee to put their name on a waitlist. Because most families looking for child care reach out to a number of providers, this was a significant cost. Waitlist fees, most of which are non-refundable, ranged from $25 to $200 or more.

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   Will Ontario ban child care waitlist charges?

   • "This has been a long time coming," said Sharon Gregson with the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of B.C., who has been advocating for $10-per-day child care since 2010. Ontario introduced legislation banning waitlist charges in 2016, which also requires transparency from providers to advise parents where they stand on any waitlist.

   B.C. to prohibit daycare waitlist fees | CBC News

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   Apr 2, 2024 · Effective Monday, April 1, 2024, families looking for licensed child care can no longer be charged a fee to put their names on waitlists, removing a barrier to finding high-quality child care.

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   Dec 7, 2023 · Starting in April 2024, child-care providers in British Columbia that receive financial support from the province will no longer be able to charge parents for putting their children on waitlists.

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   Sep 9, 2024 · Starting April 1, 2024, child care providers receiving Child Care Operating Funding can no longer charge waitlist or waitlist-related fees. This policy change helps ensure that waitlist fees are not a financial barrier for families seeking equitable access for child care throughout the province.

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   Sep 9, 2024 · Starting April 1, 2024, child care providers receiving CCOF can no longer charge waitlist and waitlist-related-fees. This will ensure waitlist fees are not a financial barrier for families seeking equitable access for child care in B.C.

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   Apr 2, 2024 · Effective Monday, April 1, 2024, families looking for licensed child care can no longer be charged a fee to put their names on waitlists, removing a barrier to finding high-quality child care. “Child care is expensive enough without fees adding up before families have secured child care,” said Mitzi Dean, Minister of State for Child Care.