Starting today, the province is providing free emergency child care to a variety of designated essential service workers, who are not able to accommodate their child’s learning or care at home during the current remote learning period.
They include:
- health care workers, including but not limited to doctors, nurses, health care providers and those who work in long-term care and retirement homes, as well as individuals who manufacture or distribute medical/pharmaceutical supplies
- individuals performing work in relation to the administration, distribution or manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines
- education staff who are required to attend schools to provide in-person instruction and support to students with special education needs who cannot be accommodated through remote learning
- child care workers, including those staffing the emergency child care programs
- truck drivers and transit workers
- construction workers
- grocery store and pharmacy workers
- public safety (police, fire, paramedics, provincial inspection/enforcement), justice/court and correctional system workers
- power workers
- non-municipal water and wastewater workers
- frontline staff in Children’s Aid Societies and residential services
- individuals working in a homeless shelter or providing services to homeless persons
- individuals working in developmental services, violence against women services, victims’ services, anti-human trafficking and those engaged in interpreting or intervenor services for persons who are deaf or deaf-blind
- food safety inspectors and individuals working in the processing, manufacturing or distribution of food and beverages
- workers involved in the collecting, transporting, storing, processing, disposing or recycling of any type of waste
- certain federal employees, including RCMP, Canada Border Services, Canadian Armed Forces and Canada Post workers
- OPS staff employed in Radiation Protection Services
- OPS staff performing critical tasks related to environmental monitoring, reporting and laboratory services
- employees of a hotel or motel that is acting as an isolation centre, health care centre, vaccine clinic or housing essential workers
- funeral, burial and cremation services operators
- any individual whose child was registered in an emergency child care program delivered by a Consolidated Municipal Service Manager or District Social Service Administration Board during the time period beginning on April 6, 2021 and ending on April 16, 2021.
To confirm whether or not your family is eligible for access to emergency child care, please contact your local service system manager. See a full list of eligible workers.
For more details, please click here.
Starting January 10, Ontario is helping families by providing access to free emergency child care for school-aged children of health care and other eligible frontline workers.
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— Education Ontario (@ONeducation) January 7, 2022
