Funding cuts to the Phil Bouvier daycare centre in the Strathcona neighbourhood has left vulnerable inner-city children without adequate support and early learning opportunities. This crisis highlights the provincial system's failure to accommodate the special needs of inner-city children. Meanwhile, Mary Polak, B.C.'s Minister of Children and Family Development, insists that there were no funding cuts at Phil Bouvier. Read the full story in The Tyee.
Daycare Serving BC's Poorest Forced to Dump Kids
Filed in: | November 2, 2009
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