The advent of full-day kindergarten has caused some hardships for area child care centres, with numerous younger children pulled out to attend school.
The B.C. Liberal government recently announced extra provincial funding intended to combat the problem, including nine licensed group child-care providers in the Cariboo that will share a total bonus payment of $7,300.
The money is intended to ease the providers' transition to having a lower enrolment, as a result of the change, with more five-year-olds attending full-day kindergarten in September 2011.
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