The changes include allowing childcare facilities in more areas, and relaxing rules for those located in house conversions
Childcare experts say changes to land-use regulations in Victoria could make it easier to establish new childcare facilities, but there are still bigger hurdles to tackling the childcare deficit.
Elliot said a local daycare program was recently making plans to expand from eight spots to 24, using new government funding, but ran into so many zoning problems and hurdles the plans were abandoned. “That doesn’t make any sense for a small business,” she said, adding the changes in Victoria could make a difference.
Calderón applauded the city for trying to do something about lack of childcare spaces, saying the need is great. She said her 12-space childcare centre, which has had a waitlist since last year, gets at least three calls a day from parents looking for a spot. “It’s really gotten to such a crisis level that the federal government stepped in with the grants and helped the provinces to go ahead and really start creating childcare systems in each province,” she said, adding the problem has been exacerbated by a lack of early childhood educators .
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