Now Parents fear daycare fee hike in Toronto

If Toronto city council follows through on a proposal to cut funds to school-based child-care centres, then ” Only the wealthy will be able to afford daycare ” said concerned parents .Parents already pay as much as $1,000 a month for daycare. If Councillors approve cuts to the city’s school-based daycare centres.

“If we tear up this agreement, it’s quickly seen by our councillors that the costs skyrocket for child-care programs,” said Jane Mercer of the Toronto Coalition for Better Child Care.

“It’s your lower- to middle-income parents…so you’ll have a situation where only those that are very wealthy will be able to afford a space in a daycare center , She has the right to continue to study and her husband to work” said Virginia Thomson. She is worried because her daughter Jessica, who is eight-months pregnant, needs daycare as a graduate student at Ryerson University.

The cuts will save the city  $3 million. The cuts will affect the city’s 13-year agreement with school boards, which sees the city pay about $5 million toward costs such as heat and hydro. About 400 child-care centres would see their funding diminish, shifting the burden to parents.

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