
Licensing, funding, and subsidizing childcare is the role of the provincial government.
However, the City, working with our partners, plays a role in planning, coordinating, and advocating for childcare and early learning programs.
Recognizing that childcare is a public amenity intended primarily to support working families, Council and staff:
The School Active Travel Planning program seeks to encourage and promote walking and cycling to school.
Council recognizes that accessible, affordable childcare is essential to the health and well-being of Vancouver's children and families, and has endorsed an Early Care and Learning plan that offers a concrete, innovative, and ambitious way to care for our children.
The City helps create high quality, licensed childcare facilities throughout Vancouver, by working with developers, architects, landscape architects, and early childhood educators. Get the City's guidelines and best practices, and apply for available grants.
City staff have gathered a number of useful resources to help you establish a high-quality licensed daycare facility.
Making sure every parent and guardian in Vancouver has access to quality, affordable childcare is a City priority. Find out how to locate childcare in your area, and get added to waiting lists.
Get free information, tools, and resources to help you raise happy, healthy, and active children.
Encourage climate protection early and help raise active, healthy, and aware children. Get links to programs and resources for teachers and parents, and fun interactive activities for children.
The Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre keeps online listings of all of the licensed, registered childcare facilities in the city.