The Future of Child Care in B.C.
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Survey is open until July 9 at 4 pm PT
Overview
Dates: May 28 to July 9, 2026
Who: The Ministry of Education and Child Care
What: The future of child care in B.C.
Where: Province-wide
Why: We want to know how the child care social program is working and where improvements are still needed
How: Online
Engagement summary
Child care in B.C. has come a long way. Lower fees, more spaces, and a bigger workforce with the newest social program in a generation. Now, the Province is building on this progress to guide the future of child care in B.C. We are asking for public input to better understand how child care is working for families and determine priorities going forward.
With this survey, we want to hear directly from:
- Parents and guardians
- Early childhood educators and the early childhood workforce
- Child care operators and communities throughout B.C.
Tell us about what’s working and where improvements are needed.
This engagement will help inform how we can continue to strengthen child care in B.C. for families, educators, and most importantly, children.
Organization submissions
This public survey is meant to capture individual perspectives. If you represent an organization or association, you are welcome to give your input with a written submission to ChildCareBC.Engagement@gov.bc.ca by July 9.
Submissions must meet the following criteria:
- Does not contain profanity or content that is defamatory, threatening, hateful, personally disparaging, harassing, indecent, vulgar, obscene, illegal, immoral or sexually explicit (partially masking profanity or other unacceptable language by substituting asterisks or other symbols into a word is not acceptable if the word remains recognizable)
- Does not appear to, or actually, infringe the copyright, trademark, right of privacy, right of publicity or any other intellectual property or other proprietary right of any third party
- Does not contain information about, or images (e.g., photographs, videos or illustrations) of, any person other than the person submitting the content
- Does not advertise any product, person or organization, or direct attention to another website for personal gain
- Does not provide links to, or information about, other sites that contain unlawful, objectionable or inappropriate content
- Does not make unproven or unsupported accusations against individuals, groups or organizations
- Does not appear to be spam-like messaging, a repeat posting or a template letter writing campaign
- Is not far off topic
Collection Notice: Your personal information will be collected for the purposes of informing the Child Care in B.C. engagement. If you have any questions about the collection of this personal information, please contact: Director, Citizen Engagement, citizenengagement@gov.bc.ca. This information is being collected by the Ministry of Education and Child Care under the authority of section 26(c) and 26(e) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (“FOIPPA”).
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