Change facilitates subsidy

_ A RECENT change in the

way child care subsidies are
- administered. will make the
process:so much easier for

|’ families, says a local child

_ -care resource coordinator.
’ Since 2004, when the
federal. Liberal government

~ withdrew local service, ad- |
, ministration’ of child care.

"subsidy “forms had. to be
done through Prince George

"- via‘ad-800 number.
“Forms had to be sent.

-from here and then returtiéd
back,” said Darlene Wester-

man, with the Skeena Child.
+ Care Resource and Referral |

Program. “It really .was.a
loss of services forus.” | -

Now, for the first time,
the government is allow-

,ing outside agencies to help

families with the application
process.

“The benefit is to the fam-

ily coming here,” Westerman
said, adding she and staff can

help parents find child care

and go through the subsidy
forms with them.
Between now and Sep-

_ tember,’ families) can pick:
up. the subsidy forms and
: guides al the Family Place,

which houses Skeena Child:

Care, or with the Ministry

‘of Employment and Income.

Assistance,

After. September, the

- Ministry of Children and

Family Development will

take over administration.
‘While Westerman prais-

es the change, she worries °

for families already .strug-

_gling with the’ subsidy, even
though rates went up in Oc-

tober 2005...

“The ‘subsidy is. not
enough,” Westerman said.
“We're pleased the rates are
up for families that are finan-
cially strapped but there still

‘ should be “Publicly funded

child care.”

~ The change of govern-
ment. this’ year derailed a

long talked. about féderal

Liberal Plan for _ publicly

" the subsidy, She. added.

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funded child care.
“We wanted publicly

: funded child care and we
won’t give up on that dream
but this (change) makes ‘it so _
much easier,” added Wester- - :

man.
- Westerman also gives a

| thumbs down to Prime Min-
_ister Stephen Harper’s plan -

to introduce a $1,200 per
child annual allowance in
the impending federal bud-
gel.

Westerman says the sub-

-sidy is taxable and simply

affects a parent.
A parent's income is $100
(per month) higher without

Oe:
Genin

- Darlene Westerman -
Current monthly subsidy

payments ‘vary depending
on a family’s ciftcumstances,
from family size, the age of
the child(ren) and the type of |
child care e chosen.

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