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The UCP government is extending funding until June for child-care centres that are part of the province’s $25-a-day pilot, but a final decision has not been made as to whether the program will continue beyond then.

There are 22 early learning and child-care centres supported through the first phase of the program, established by the former NDP government in 2017.

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Funding for those operators had been scheduled to run out at the end of March, but Children’s Services Minister Rebecca Schulz said it will continue until June “to ensure a smooth transition to child-care subsidies through the summer, as we work on a new bilateral funding agreement with the federal government.”

Another 100 centres were added to the program through federal funding in 2018. This second phase is scheduled to run through March 2021.

In a statement, Schulz said terms of the pilot program “have not changed.”

“We are committed to working with all Early Learning and Childcare Centres to ensure the families most in need continue to be supported to access the workforce or pursue post-secondary education,” she said.