British Columbia

The Early Learning and Child Care Act will replace the Child Care Subsidy Act and the Child Care BC Act; the Early Childhood Educators Act will replace relevant sections of the Community Care and Assisted Living Act and Child Care Licensing Regulation. [...] 1 The Ministry of Education and Child Care was created in April 2022 when the Child Care Division previously housed within the Ministry of Children and Family Development became part of the Ministry of Education. [...] Métis Child Care Navigators support capacity and FIRsT NATIONs, MéTIs AND INuIT CHILD curriculum development and training for early learning CARE OTHER THAN ON REsERVE and child care programs and Early Childhood Educators, There are: and connect Métis families and communities through- • 239 full-day licensed Indigenous focused/led child out BC with early learning and child care programs. [...] Child care in BC is licensed and regulated under the authority of the Community Care and Assisted Living Act REGuLATED FAMILy CHILD CARE (CCALA) and the Child Care Licensing Regulations In BC, regulated family child care is termed family child (CCLR). [...] A family child care provider must be at least 19 years of The amount of funding a family receives under the ACCB depends on the family’s income and size, the age, have completed a course or a combination of courses ages of their children and the type of child care they of at least 20 hours duration in child development, guid- are accessing.