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Nova Scotia's education minister announced $12 million in funding for the child-care sector on Friday, including money aimed at expanding the number of spaces for infants, further boosts to wages and help with inflation. | CBCNS

for entry level and untrained staff. All centres, family home providers and the Nova Scotia Before and After Program will get one-time grants to help with increased operational costs.Helen Gamble, the owner and director of Health Park Early Learning Centre in Sydney, said the added money comes at a good time."Electricity is going up, so it is just going to be … a help.

Nova Scotia funded 1,145 child-care spaces for infants as of last October. Druhan said it's too soon to know how many more spaces will be created as a result of Friday's announcement, but Gamble said she thinks the money will be an incentive for sites to create more spaces. "It's more costly than having any other age group, so I think it will make people think, 'We can do this with the support of the government.'"acrimony between the department and some operators as the transition process has played out,"I think that it's definitely a show of good faith that they are trying to build a trusting relationship with the sector. I do think that this is a positive step.

Still, there's work to do, she said. There remains a "vast" shortage of early childhood educators, something Gamble said could affect the department's goal of continuing to add spaces to the sector.

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