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The City’s Community and Protective Services Committee today approved an updated workplan for Children’s Services for 2021 and 2022, revised to reflect COVID-19 pandemic response and recovery.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on Ottawa’s child care and early years sector, and the City is providing ongoing support to families, children and service providers. In 2020, the highlights of Children’s Services pandemic response work included emergency child care for health care and frontline workers, user-friendly online applications, streamlined access to fee subsidies for Indigenous families and priority support for children with special needs.
The updated workplan will address pandemic recovery and response actions for the rest of 2021 and 2022, including impacts to families, changing local needs and disproportionate impacts on women and groups facing systemic barriers. The City will continue to collaborate with families and child care providers on emergency response measures, closing and reopening services, and health and safety requirements. The City will also continue to support the well-being of child care workers and early childhood educators, and assist with financial pressures.
Committee received a report outlining the results of a review of the City’s child care centres. The review found that only one of the City’s 10 centres did not meet Council's mandate of serving families who face various barriers and systemic challenges in areas of the city where there are insufficient child care spaces to meet demand: the Centre éducatif Pinocchio in Lowertown. The report also noted that while Foster Farm Child Care Centre in Nepean does meet Council’s mandate, it is located in an aging apartment building leased by the City, which poses significant operational challenges.
Council directed staff to develop a plan to transition the francophone child care services at the Pinocchio location to a not-for-profit child care provider, reinvest Pinocchio’s funding in a high needs area, and address the concerns at Foster Farm. To minimize the impacts on families, children and staff, the current services at both centres would continue until Council has approved the transition plan and the services can be seamlessly transitioned. The City would maintain all its francophone child care spaces throughout.
Recommendations from today’s meeting will rise to Council on Wednesday, June 23.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on Ottawa’s child care and early years sector, and the City is providing ongoing support to families, children and service providers. In 2020, the highlights of Children’s Services pandemic response work included emergency child care for health care and frontline workers, user-friendly online applications, streamlined access to fee subsidies for Indigenous families and priority support for children with special needs.
The updated workplan will address pandemic recovery and response actions for the rest of 2021 and 2022, including impacts to families, changing local needs and disproportionate impacts on women and groups facing systemic barriers. The City will continue to collaborate with families and child care providers on emergency response measures, closing and reopening services, and health and safety requirements. The City will also continue to support the well-being of child care workers and early childhood educators, and assist with financial pressures.
Committee received a report outlining the results of a review of the City’s child care centres. The review found that only one of the City’s 10 centres did not meet Council's mandate of serving families who face various barriers and systemic challenges in areas of the city where there are insufficient child care spaces to meet demand: the Centre éducatif Pinocchio in Lowertown. The report also noted that while Foster Farm Child Care Centre in Nepean does meet Council’s mandate, it is located in an aging apartment building leased by the City, which poses significant operational challenges.
Council directed staff to develop a plan to transition the francophone child care services at the Pinocchio location to a not-for-profit child care provider, reinvest Pinocchio’s funding in a high needs area, and address the concerns at Foster Farm. To minimize the impacts on families, children and staff, the current services at both centres would continue until Council has approved the transition plan and the services can be seamlessly transitioned. The City would maintain all its francophone child care spaces throughout.
Recommendations from today’s meeting will rise to Council on Wednesday, June 23.
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