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Capital Investments in Child Care Infrastructure
- Project Status – Highlights (Opened, Under Construction, Approved)
- Project Status – Highlights by Project Type (Expression of Interest (EOI), Minor, Major Infrastructure, Public Partnerships)
Capital Investments in Child Care Infrastructure
We’re creating more child care spaces across the Province.
We are working hard to increase access to early learning and child care spaces for more children and families across the Province.
Our long term vision is that all children and families have access to high-quality, affordable early learning and child care. We’re steadily working to create new licensed early learning and child care spaces across Nova Scotia. We’re creating a mix of infant, toddler, preschool spaces and before and after school spaces.
- All tables are organized alphabetically by county to make the information easier to find.
- The tables will be updated regularly as projects progress.
Project Status – Highlights
The summary below shows all projects across all project types, grouped by their current project status: Open, Under Construction, and Approved.
| Estimated Child Care Spaces | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Status | # of Projects | Total | Infant | Toddler | Preschool |
| Open | 57 | 1869 | 312 | 898 | 659 |
| Under Construction | 22 | 1309 | 226 | 556 | 527 |
| Approved | 15 | 1391 | 254 | 491 | 646 |
| Grand Total | 94* | 4569 | 792 | 1945 | 1832 |
* The summary table has been updated to reflect reporting changes and does not represent any new funding approvals.
Project Status – Highlights by Project Type
The summary below shows all projects by project type: Expression of Interest (EOI), Major, Minor, Public Partnership.
| Estimated Child Care Spaces | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Type | # of Projects | Total | Infant | Toddler | Preschool |
| EOI | 48 | 1382 | 284 | 626 | 472 |
| Minor | 8 | 338 | 8 | 191 | 139 |
| Major | 20 | 1242 | 188 | 558 | 496 |
| Public Partnership | 18 | 1607 | 312 | 570 | 725 |
| Grand Total | 94* | 4569 | 792 | 1945 | 1832 |
* The summary table has been updated to reflect reporting changes and does not represent any new funding approvals.