Early Childhood Education

WHEREAS every child in British Columbia deserves equal opportunity for quality early learning and child care and to be protected from harm; AND WHEREAS early childhood care funding in British Columbia has declined despite the transfer of federal government dollars to the provincial government to enhance provincial child programs: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Union of British Columbia Municipalities urge the provincial government to restore child care funding to 20002001 levels and return the income threshold eligibility for child care subsidy to 20002001 rates.