Parents say proposed changes to childcare act could limit their options Mother of two upset new centres may not be allowed to open to allow less competition TERESA WRIGHT The Guardian
A group of parents is upset over what it feels was a lack of publicity over proposed changes to the provincial childcare act — changes the parents feel diminish their childcare options.
Early last week, the province hosted meetings to get public input on wording changes being considered in the province’s childcare legislation.
As it stands right now, anyone wanting to open a new childcare centre must apply to the provincial Child Care Facilities Board for a licence.
The wording of the act does not allow the board to refuse a licence as long as all requirements and regulations are met.
But the Early Learning Operators of P.E.I. (ELOPEI) believes this is not good for the existing centres, many of which are operating below capacity.
“We did go to government and asked if there was any way they could support the centres that are already existing in recruiting and retaining by limiting the number of centres that open in a year,” ELOPEI chair Lynn Hogan told The Guardian.
The government responded that the public should be consulted before any changes were made to the legislation and public meetings were set up for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.
By the time Gail Rhyno found out about them, however, those dates had passed.
“At first I chalked it up to that I don’t always pay attention,” said the parent of two young children. “I don’t always read the paper or watch the news.”
But when her childcare provider contacted her asking her to take part in a focus group discussing the proposed changes, she was shocked to learn many other parents were also in the dark.
“Friends didn’t know, parents didn’t know. Another media person I contacted didn’t know. I thought, ‘OK it’s not me just not paying attention’.”
When she found out what changes were being proposed — that new centres might not be allowed to open to allow for less competition — Rhyno was even more upset.
“When you’re choosing where to put your children, it’s one of the biggest decisions you’ll ever make as a parent.”
Taking away the right of new childcare centres to open removes new choices that could be available to parents, she said.
“Government is saying this thing about ‘enough spaces available’,” she said.
“They’re not all high quality. I don’t mind being told to settle when I’m shopping for light bulbs. But it’s almost like a personal attack when you’re being asked to settle for childcare.”
She said she doesn’t think government should be getting involved in protecting the business interests of the existing centres.
But Hogan said operators are facing a number of competitive factors in the industry, which takes away from delivering quality childcare services.
“There’s an oversupply of spaces and some centres had to lay off staff,” she said.
With the current provincial shortage of early childhood educators, new centres that can afford to pay more are drawing educators away from existing centres, she said.
“Who’s to say Tim Hortons wouldn’t want to open up a daycare? How can you compete with them? So we want to make sure the little people are taken care of and they have quality staff and that children are receiving quality care.”
Kathy Jones, the provincial director of social programs, said the deadline for written submissions has been extended to Feb. 15 to allow for increased public input into the proposed changes.
“I don’t think that there’s any pre-judging about what the outcome will be,” Jones said. “I think we’re very open in terms of where this may go and certainly want to hear from as many people as we can.”
She encouraged people to e-mail their thoughts and concerns to Social Services or fill out the online survey available on the department website.
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A few sentences tell all from PE writes: A few sentences tll all in this story. First of all, people should question how a New daycare opening could afford to pay staff more then the exsisting daycare. If the daycare that is not established, has had to likely buy or renovate their building or home at todays prices can afford to pay more, you can be darn sure the established daycare can afford to pay more. As for Tim Horton's opening a daycare, they have had the opportunity to do so now for years. They haven't. What makes you think they are going to start now. They have a business plan, a very successful one I might add. This story talks about other centres having to lay off staff. Why would they take on this business risk when they are making money hand over fist. This is about as likely as Microsoft opening a daycare on PEI. This is noting but a means for exsisting daycare operators to attempt to keep wages for staff as low as possible to ensure healthy bottom lines.
And from what I know of Jones, if she states that it is not a done deal, it has probably been signed, sealed, and delivered for months.
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Darryl from PEI writes: Its interesting that Ms Hogan suggested in another article that We're hoping, instead of every centre having one good early childhood educator, then if there was less centres then you would have more of a pool to pick from. So maybe I could have two or three really strong childhood educators, said Hogan.
If I was working within her facility I would wonder if I was the good one or not. If I was a parent I would wonder as well about her staff now being unmotivated due to her comments. I know my sons daycare has more than one strong staff member, they are all strong educators. Maybe Ms Hogan should concentrate on making sure she has happy staff instead of trying to limit her competition. I think her comments are a slap in the face to those people she employs and supposedly represents.
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April Ennis from Summerville, PE writes: There are so many things that government is not sharing with parents regarding this issue. If you are concerned about what you know or what you don't know you can contact your local MLA or join our PEI Child Care Facebook Group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21536210087. You can also support our petition at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/peichildcare/
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a parent of 2 from charlottetown, pei writes: I am just wondering about all the oversupply of spaces in the day cares, I am on a waiting list at 3 differant charlottetown days cares for months now. seems like all the top childcare centres are full..
...things that make me go hmmmm...
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Joey Arsenault from Charlottetown, P.E.I. writes: The Murphy Group, a number of years ago, built and opened a new childcare centre on Upper Prince Street in Charlottetown. They eventually closed and turned the building into an apartment.
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Whosechildisitanyway from pei writes: I'm so sick and tired of parents whining about who is responsible for looking after their kids. Yes, there are those who need child care....What drives me crazy, are the parents that have 2 cars in the driveway of a big house, wanting my tax dollars to look after their kids. Give up 1 car, buy a smaller house and look after your kids until they go to school. Does anyone in our society take responsibility for themselves? Kids are much better off if a parent is at home with them and that requires financial sacrifice. I'm all for my taxes going directly to parents on a monthly basis until the child is 12 yrs of age.
Its your child, Love them, nurture them, read to them, raise them. Its your responsibility. If you don't want that resposibility, don't have kids...
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JT from Stratford, PEI writes: There are not enough quality spaces available, either at centres or at home daycares. We would never put our child in a centre, a stranger's home would be bad enough. We called over a dozen places and looked at a few who had spaces available. I must say the settings were poor and I could not imagine our child there all day long, for years. How depressing! Fortunately, we have a parent home with our kids and we have adjusted our lifstyle to accommodate this, which was the best decison we could have made.
For those who choose or must send their kids out, high quality spaces are needed, and there currently are not enough of them in the Ch'town/Stratford area.
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JT from Stratford, PEI writes: To Whosechildisitanyway.
You read my mind but I was more tactful than you! This is what we have done, but we do not call having a parent home with our kids a sacrifice. The real sacrifice is sending your children to these places when it may be unnecesary!
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whosechildisitanyway from pei writes: JT...Totally agree with you. Having a parent at home is an absolute blessing to a family. Everyone benefits. Its a matter of priority. Material things or fulfilling your responsibility as a parent to your children. How often to you see parents taking their kids to this and that and dropping them off. The kids are stressed out. All they want is a parents time and to do things together. Anyway, I could go on a rant about all the benefits...........
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jimbo from pei writes: Wish I could prevent any new competition it would make life so much easier and profitable.
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Bea from Charlottetown, PE writes: Some of the abundance of childcare spaces can be explained by demographics.
Just as the education system is facing reduced enrollments, our childcare system is facing the same crunch.
The Island's population is aging.
Fewer centres will not preclude quality childcare.
A poorly functioning childcare centre is an asset to no one. I have a good friend who is an early childhood educator, so I've heard first hand stories of badly run centres. We have enough of those.
What is needed is stricter adherence to guidelines and regulations currently in place for childcare centres.
I understand there are waiting lists to get into the good centres because they are, unfortunately, not commonplace.
So, instead of adding more poor centres, address the disparity that is glaringly apparent between the good centres and the poor ones.
Ask any parent, who is on a waiting list for one of the good centres, what makes a specific centre worth waiting for. Perhaps, also ask, why other centres with an abundance of available spaces were not chosen.
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I agree from PE writes: Ok, so this time i do not agree. I don't agree with the comments on keeping a parent home to look after the children. Also downsizing isn't always an option.
We are a professional couple, with student loans to pay, along with regular bills. We do live in a small house.. 1100sq ft (no basement) and 5 of us. We only own one vehicle, and well there is still no option for one of us to stay home.
GIve your heads a shake. There is a problem with finding decent childcare. In some areas we need more centers, in others it should be regulated. I am not sure where they are finding the extra spaces or where the daycares are that are laying off staff, but they certainly can't be within the Charlottetown or Cornwall areas, and if they are, there is probably a reason why parents don't bring their children there.
I think the focus should be more on investing in QUALITY childcare, not making new rules for what is already there. Why bother spending time on this when things can be done about what is already there.
Being home would be a great option, if it were still th 50's and fuel/groceries/mortage/propane were priced as then as well. Its just not an option these days for most families.
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Whwhosechildisitanyway fr from pei writes: I agree from PE writes: As I said in my post Yes, there are those who need child care.......
I don't know about the 50s and 60s, I raised my kids in the 80s and 90s.....I do remember someone at work saying to me.. Do you have to park that rust bucket in our parking lot....Well I drove my rust bucket to work but my wife looked after our 2 Cadillacs at home...The bills mounted, holidays were none existing, but the woods and lakes were near by for adventure and exploration. We didn't drop our kids off for someone else to entertain. As a family we stayed strong and united and continue today. We read to our kids and they had our support all through their early years and now they are returning that love and bond that we developed........Soon, we will start that tradition with our grand children.....Life is a struggle and we all make choices.....
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sick from the drink writes: Part of my problem with all of this is that much of what we are hearing in support of this limitation comes sector representatives. So the Early Learning Operators of PEI support the changes that would limit the ability of others to open new daycares - those with existing childcare facilities are lobbying to prevent the creation of new childcare facilities. No kidding. What business owner wouldn’t want to prevent competition. So, let them state their case - but recognize that this lobby is heavily invested in the outcome, and can’t possibly be neutral in this issue.
The bottom line is that if a centre is well run and offering a good experience for the child, parents will put their children in that centre, regardless of whether or not the bargain bin centre down the road is a few bucks cheaper. The free market has its flaws, but promoting competition between businesses does provide give an incentive for businesses to meet the needs of their customers.
Oh, and to the folks who are slamming those who have kids in daycares, get over yourself. I make pretty decent money on a PEI scale and my wife stays home with our kids. But with only my income, and the ever-rising costs of owning/heating/maintaining a home, we are still barely able to make ends meet. And that is with a wage that is better than many others. The reality is that many families need two parents in the workforce just to pay the bills, and they don’t have family who are able or willing to meet their childcare needs.
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Bill from PEI writes: Sometimes being in a childcare centre is better than being at home!!!!!
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Thersa M from PEI writes: This is old news folks. They tried to push this through back in the Fall. Now they are trying again only this time, they are being sneaky about it. 'Extending the deadline' to Feb 15th when many people did not even know that there was any consultation process going on.
Something is not right here. Why is the Department of Social Services even thinking of limiting spaces when the current system clearly does not work.
I agree with the person who said that we need quality and that we need to focus our attention on that point. A monopoly will not produce quality. Tried and true.
I say keep things open and encourage healthy competition. If weeding out needs to happen then let it happen naturally.
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When a 'social worker' plays economist it hurts from laughing AND crying after, all, market intervention writes: Absolutely frightening that a social worker appears to be heading up a market intervention via limiting the number of facilities.
This is th esame approach used for lobster licences where prices were driven through th eroof for product and entry into the industry.
Ms. Jones ought to be aware that limiting access to free markets is not simply 'protecting little people.' As to her reference to Tim Horton's - it's highly inappropriate and unprofessional.
Moreover, if I was in the employ of Tim Horton's, why couldn't my children be able to attend a company sponsored facility?
If I wasn't feeling so charitable, the word idiot would be rolling off my keyboard...
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April Ennis from Summerville, PE writes: I definately agree with operators that there is a shortage of certified early childhood educators. One suggestion which would not limit the amount of spaces would be to promote this career/industry on PEI. This would attract more individuals to the field and create a larger pool of trained professionals to work within these child care businesses. Limiting the amount of spaces is a bandaid solution in the favor of the operators, not the children.
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sick from the drink writes: Does anybody know where to find the online form that is mentioned - I can't.
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Andrew from PEI writes: .
There is no reason for the government to be enacting laws that decrease competition.
http://laws.justice.gc.ca
Someone should take them to court if they limit the number of daycares allowed to open.
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rob from pei writes: well will we need to put any more teacher threw the program,
if there are only a few places to work and if they are laying off people already because there is no work for them then shut down the program at holland college no need for any more we have enough.
this is all about profit for some and they are scared of competition or maybe somebody want to seel there daycare and if done like lobster licences they will get more for it.
the more you flood the market with teachers and they only have a few places to apply they will have to work as cheap labour,besides if they can't find work on the Island they can move to alberta.
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Kristine Nagata from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island writes: Placing a freeze on new childcare centres may impact a parents freedom to choose what they feel is most appropriate to the needs of their child. Could this decision cause complacency in the sector? The number of people entering the childcare field has declined - it's been proven that low wages, lack of respect, and little support, have the greatest impact on staffing in the childcare sector. Until owners and/or operators improve wages and working conditions, there will continue to be a shortage of qualified childcares providers. It sounds as though one of ELOPEI's concerns is that new centres are taking away from and jeopardizing the sustainability of existing programs. They feel they may lose children and staff to new facilities making them vulnerable. It begs the question, why do some childcare centres have vacant spaces while others have wait lists? What's the real issue here?
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Roxane from PE writes: Interesting fact. There are less then 100 licensed child care spaces to serve the approx. 2800 infants ages 0-22 months on PEI. How are new moms going to benefit from government freezing new licenses on PEI?
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Amy M from PE writes: I am very offended by whosechildisitanyway and JT's remarks. Of course I would love to stay at home with my daughter. Unfortunately I am a single mother going to school so I do not end up working in the fast food industry for the rest of my life. It is all good to say that there is nature around that we can play in for free, but the beauty of the outdoors is not going to pay my rent or put food on the table.
I am extremely lucky to have found a daycare that my daughter loves to go to. Her teachers love to see her and she is making friends. I spent a long time on the waiting list but I feel that this daycare is worth it. I have seen some dumps that should be shut down. I do not think it is fair that they should be opened, let alone without competition.
Now before I anyone suggests I stop going to school so I can spend time with my daughter and go on EI (I've heard it all before), I have a lot more pride and hope to instill in my daughter the same work ethic. I work on the weekends and go to school during the week with the help of my family and a wonderful daycare.
And don't worry, my daughter isn't deprived of love. She wakes up everyday and goes to bed every night knowing that she is loved by many people.
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April Ennis from PE writes: It is so nice to see lots of discussion about child care. It is long overdue. I think everyone can all agree that it is a parent's choice to send their child to a child care centre or stay home with them during these early years. Nobody is right or wrong for their personal belief about that. Parents who chose to place their children in a child care business should not be be limited in options. There are many factors to why a centre might be operating below capacity. Available of skilled staff, location, public perception, and PEI's seasonal parent workforce all play a part in this. To only come up with one solution with limited discussion is not thinking outside of the box. Please examine all the factors involved.
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Bitter from PEI writes: I don't understand how they can say that 67% are operating under their capacity. When my maternity leave was up, I was still on several waiting lists for daycares, and had gone to see many private child care givers, none of whom I felt were suitable to be looking after children. Maternity leave is only one year, and very few daycares and even very few private childcare givers are willing to take in a one year old. So what's a mom to do when faced with no choices? Do I send my child to a place that I find depressing after spending only twenty minutes there, or do I quit my job? Neither one is an ideal situation, however, for the sake of my child, I chose to quit my job and as a result, I can barely make ends meet. So thank you child care on PEI.
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Sara Landriault from Kemptville, ON writes: What you need to do is decide, who chooses for your children. The government or the parent?
Also define quality... The non profit daycare advocates define quality by the amount the daycare provider is paid. If that is how you define quality in real life every parent at home would be bad quality, since they don't get paid.
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tracy harding from ch'town, p.e.i. writes: I think this is a very big mistake on your part!!!! I have a 4 year old who goes to daycare and he really injoys gong, I think it,s great place for a child to be. it,s very safe, and I also have a 2 year old who might have speech problem,s who has to have daycare, to help with these problem,s, she need,s to be around other people and if she does,nt have that chance,she won,t talk right. I really do wanna get out to work again, but people like are really making hard for me to do, and i,am not getting just anybody from the street to come into my home to babysit , I made that mistake before and my son omost pay the price for it, he was negented and omost let out in the street, i thought this person was safe but she was,nt what i thought she was after that i found it really to trust anyone with mychildren, that,s why i think daycare should stay open!!!!!!!!
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