Excerpts from:

"Showing We Care: A Child Care Strategy For The 'gQs"
- the complete report of the Taskforce on Child Care.

Chapter VIT The Mandate and Means To Deliver Quality Child
Care - page 21.

The Task Force Recommends That:

the provincial government accept as its mandate the
responsibility to develop, deliver and coordinate = an
adequately funded, comprehensive, high quality child care
system that is accessible and affordable to British Columbia

families;

the provincial government work toward enshrining its child
care ~andate and de’ very system in legislation.

Chapter Ix Financing and Funding Mechanisms - page 41.

Tre Yask Force on Child Cave Recommends:

1. an immediate introduction of a significant increase in the
existing daycare subsidy rates to more accurately reflect.
the cost of care. A preliminary assessment by the Task
Force recommends the following percentage increases:

30 - 35% for children 0 ~ 3 years;
25 = 30% for children 3 ~ 5 years; and,
10 - 18% for school-aged children;

Qe an immediate inerease in the income exemption level toward
the maximum allowable under federal cost-sharing

regulations;

an immediate implementation of direct operating grants for
existing centre-based infant and toddler programs and new
non-profit infant and toddler programs;

enriched capital funding be provided to non-profit societies
for construction, renovation and purchase of child care

facilities; and,

development of appropriate capital funding programs to
support the implementation of a continuum of care options
cutlined in Section VIII - Community Based Delivery.