UM Todaypreschool child-care – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Winnipeg Free Press: Province long way from promised preschool child-care spaces, frustrated advocates say https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/winnipeg-free-press-province-long-way-from-promised-preschool-child-care-spaces-frustrated-advocates-say/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/winnipeg-free-press-province-long-way-from-promised-preschool-child-care-spaces-frustrated-advocates-say/#respond Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:21:23 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=207396 Province long way from promised preschool child-care spaces, frustrated advocates say]]> Dr. Susan Prentice, a professor in the department of sociology at the University of Manitoba and a member of the Child Care Coalition of Manitoba, called for a model of public management and delivery of child care.

As it stands, most centres in Manitoba are owned and operated by non-profit organizations.

“We rely on parent volunteers to start up and operate non-profit child-care centres… these volunteers are amazing, but it is a lot of work to ask parents of young children during the most time-starved years of their lives to run the services on which they rely,” Prentice said.

To read the entire story, please follow the link here with the Winnipeg Free Press.

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