June 5 2016 - The provincial Budget for 2016-17 continued the Saskatchewan government’s support for early education and child care provision.
Joint-use school projects entailed developing 810 new child care spaces in the following locations:
- Saskatoon
- Regina
- Warman
- Martensville
The provincial budget included funding of $1.6 million for almost 200 child care spaces that had previously been approved to come on-line this year.
The total funding for child care amounts to nearly $53 million in this budget.
The number of licensed childcare spaces in Saskatchewan has passed 14,600 - an increase of almost 5,800 since 2008.
