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However, the agency can care for a maximum of six children under the Ministry of Education is responsible for enforcing the age of 13, based on the age of the child and the agency’s Child Care and Early Years Act (CCEYA) and its regu- discretion. [...] Licensed • Child care centres for children in junior Use of this framework is a provincial requirement for a kindergarten to Grade 6 – These are under the aegis child care centre and regulations support its implemen- of child care and are not located in schools. [...] Funding for Indigenous-led child care and EarlyON Child and Family programs must be spent on the following priorities: • increasing access to culturally relevant licensed child care and EarlyON Child and Family programs; and • programming delivered by Indigenous-led organizations working with CMSMs/DSSABs. [...] To be eligible to provide child care for a child whose Families with low and moderate incomes can receive up fees are subsidized, a child care operator must have a to $6,000 per child under the age of seven years, or up service contract with the CMSM or DSSAB (sometimes to $3,750 per child between seven and 16 years; and up called a “purchase of service agreement”). [...] As of March 2022, there were 611 EarlyON Child and The Ministry of Education allocates provincial child Family Centres, and an additional 358 locations oper- care funds to the CMSMs and DSSABs using a funding ating out of libraries, schools, parks and community formula introduced in 2013 and reviewed in 2019 – centres.