S6 E38: ECE Exodus

When the federal and provincial governments signed the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in 2021, Manitoba’s early learning and child care sector received millions of dollars to lower the cost of child care, create new child care spaces, expand training programs, increase wages, and provide more funding to child care centres. So then why are early childhood educators, the most critical factor in providing quality child care, leaving the field faster than we can train them?