About the plan
- The Cost Control Framework and For-Profit Expansion Plan acknowledges the uniqueness of Alberta’s mixed market child care system and will make it so more licensed private child care programs are able to provide more spaces to Alberta families under the Canada-Alberta Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement.
- The For-Profit Expansion Plan will allow up to 22,500 additional licensed private child care spaces to be eligible for funding supports in addition to the 42,500 non-profit child care spaces that will be created by 2025-26.
- The Cost Control Framework will guide the sound and reasonable use of public funds by:
- ensuring accountability and directed use of funds while still supporting parent choice for additional child care services
- maintaining rigor around licensing requirements and financial practices
- reducing potential exposure to fee and cost escalation for parents and governments
How it works
- Once implemented the Cost Control Framework will apply equally to private and non-profit operators.
Next steps
Starting April 1, 2025, parents with children up to kindergarten age attending full-time licensed daycare facilities and family day home programs across the province will be eligible for a flat parent fee of $326.25 per month. Parents requiring part-time care will pay $230 per month. As opposed to a flat monthly parent fee, Alberta’s government will reimburse preschools up to $100 per month per child on parents’ behalf, up from $75.
Alberta’s government is introducing affordability funding approaches for daycare providers, preschools and family day homes to enable the continued delivery of quality child care across the province and further implement the Canada-Alberta Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement.
News
- More options for affordable, accessible child-care spaces (January 31, 2023)
- $50M now available to create child-care spaces (July 7, 2022)
- New transition funding for child-care operators (December 22, 2021)
- Making child care more affordable for families (November 26, 2021)
- Alberta and Canada sign child-care agreement (November 15, 2021)