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图／省长办公室 省长韦恩今天探访市中心一家儿童日托中心时发表讲话。旁为教育厅厅长康德莹（右二）、教育厅副厅长（早年教育及日托服务）纳兰杜（右一）。
图／省长办公室 省长韦恩今天探访市中心一家儿童日托中心，抱一个女童，这个女童玩起韦恩佩戴的项链。旁为教育厅厅长康德莹（右一）、教育厅副厅长（早年教育及日托服务）纳兰杜（右二）。
安省省长韦恩今天宣布对内阁稍作调整，委任纳兰杜（Indira Naidoo-Harris）出任教育厅副厅长，专责儿童早年教育及日托服务。
省政府在公告中说，纳兰杜的职位名称为教育厅副厅长（早年教育及日托服务），她将与教育厅厅长肩并肩地推行省府的儿童教育方略，继续为安省的儿童早年教育及日托系统，建造高素质、人人可得、人们支付得起的服务，支持家长们的选择及弹性，促进儿童身心的健康发展。
纳兰杜将继续以下几方面现有的工作﹕
＊ 为安省幼儿与家庭中心（Ontario early Years Child and Family Centres）建立一个更新、统一的系统，为各处家庭与社区提供更佳的服务
＊ 确保日托服务政策配合省府在其他方面的努力，比如解决男女同工不同酬的问题
＊ 与联邦及省、特区政府合作，构筑一个全国性的早年学习及日托服务框架。
省长韦恩说﹕「获得高素质、可负担的日托服务，对安省家庭来说很重要。设置教育厅副厅长一职，显示我们在继续履行我们的承诺，继续建造一个日托及儿童早年教育的系统，以减轻家长们的负担，并给儿童一个健康发展的良机。」
教育厅副厅长（早年教育及日托服务）纳兰杜说﹕「孩子们的早年发展，可以影响他们的终生。在这个新的职位上，我期待与日托服务机构、人士及安省家庭紧密合作，为我们的孩子们打好成功的基础。我们将建立一个早年教育及日托服务系统，支持安省的家长，为更多的孩子提供他们需要和应得的好的开端。」
New Associate Minister of Education Will Lead Work on Early Years and Child Care
Premier Kathleen Wynne today announced a change to her cabinet that will help strengthen supports for parents and give children the best possible start in life.
Indira Naidoo-Harris, MPP for Halton, becomes Associate Minister of Education (Early Years and Child Care). She will lead the government's efforts, in partnership with the Minister of Education, to build a high-quality, accessible and affordable early years and child care system that supports choice and flexibility for parents and promotes healthy development for children.
Naidoo-Harris will build on work to date in several areas, including:
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Putting in place a renewed and coordinated system of Ontario Early Years Child and Family Centres to better serve families and communities
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Ensuring that child care policies align with government efforts in areas such as addressing the gender wage gap
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Working with the federal and provincial and territorial governments on a national early learning and child care framework.
Giving children the best start in life is part of the government's economic plan to build Ontario up and deliver on its number-one priority to grow the economy and create jobs. The four-part plan includes helping more people get and create the jobs of the future by expanding access to high-quality college and university education. The plan is making the largest infrastructure investment in hospitals, schools, roads, bridges and transit in Ontario's history and is investing in a low-carbon economy driven by innovative, high-growth, export-oriented businesses. The plan is also helpin g working Ontarians achieve a more secure retirement.
QUICK FACTS
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Starting September 1, Ontario is ending fees for licensed child care centre and home child care agency wait lists. It is the first province to do so.
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Since 2012–13, the number of licensed spaces in child care centres has increased by more than 56,000 — a 19% increase.
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Ontario is providing $120 million over three years in new funding to create about 4,000 safe, high-quality, licensed child care spaces in schools across the province.
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Ontario is investing $269 million over three years to support a wage increase for early childhood educators and other child care professionals in licensed child care settings.
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Full-day kindergarten has been available to every four- and five-year-old in Ontario since September 2014. Families could save up to $6,500 per child each year in child care costs by enrolling their child in full-day kindergarten.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
(Source: The Provincial Government of Ontario)
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