More child care spaces coming to Hammonds Plains

The Nova Scotia government says the community of Hammonds Plains will see more early learning and child-care spaces opening this summer.

According to the province, It Takes a Village Child Care Centre on Parkland Drive in Halifax is opening a second location that is expected to create about 75 new child-care spaces for toddlers and preschool-aged children.

“Nova Scotians have told us they need better access to child care, and that’s exactly what we are providing,” Becky Druhan, Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, said in a release. “These new spaces are part of our updated expansion plan to increase access to child care across the province.”

This is the first project approved under the province’s new Minor Infrastructure Program for New Early Learning and Child Care Space Creation that offers funding to licensed not-for-profit child-care providers to quickly renovate and expand.

It is part of the Canada-Nova Scotia Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement, which supports the child-care system so all families have access to affordable, high-quality and inclusive care when and where they need it.

It Takes a Village received $275,000 for renovations to the space.

Nova Scotia, in partnership with the federal government, has now invested $333 million annually in early learning and child care.