Good news for Saskatchewan parents, as the province has announced it is teaming up with Ottawa, to reduce parent fees for regulated child care in the province to ten dollars a day, starting April 1st.
The goal was to bring child care costs to that level by 2025-26, but with today’s (MON) announcement, Saskatchewan has reached that goal three years ahead of schedule.
Families with kids under the age of six, attending daycare on a full-time basis, can expect to pay $217.50 a month, with monthly savings for each child in care, to reach an average of $395 to $573.
As of the end of 2022, there was just shy of 19,800 regulated child care spaces operating in 144 centres across the province.