DaycareDebt: Daycare by the numbers

It's difficult to to paint a picture of the state of child care in Newfoundland and Labrador becausesome daycares are licensed and regulated, while many others are not. We've added quotes from mothers who talked to CBC Newswhile we were researching this story.

Here are some numbers we've found.

Newfoundland and Labrador government

As of June 30, 2014, the total number of regulated child care spaces in Newfoundland and Labrador was 7,815 representing a 30 per centincrease since 2007, according to the Newfoundland and Labrador government'sChild Care Fact Sheet.

• 200 Child Care Centres with 7,045 spaces
• 135 Family Child Care Homes with 770 spaces

From April 1, 2014 to June 30, 2014, a total of 2,330 children received subsidies for regulated child care spaces located in 225 child care centres and family child care homes.

Newfoundland and Labrador child care fact sheet

The Parent Trap - Centre for Policy Alternatives

"Hoping the government is able tohelp young families like mine. We make decent money at our jobs, but seems like notenough to pay daycare, the mortgage and everything else that comes along with that, plushaving two small growing children." - Christa Doyle

I'veinterviewed more babysitters/caregivers/home daycarecentresthan I care to recall. I left many places not only feelingdefeated, but depressed and in tears, thinking, Some people have no choice but to leavetheir children here because its the only thing they can afford. - Gillian Roberts

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The Jimmy Pratt Foundation - The EarlyYears Last a Lifetime

I am not paying someone almost all of my payto raise my children, I would rather stay home with them until they attend school all day. - Eugenia Hughes