CPE for new arrivals: Statu quo maintained, plane uncertainty

While the Quebec Government maintains the status quo for the moment concerning the exclusion of certain newcomers with regard to access to the Network of Early Childhood Centers (CPE), the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean service managers are awaiting the next directives.

On July 9, the family ministry announced that newcomers with a work permit open were going to lose their access to CPEand other childcare services subsidized by the Quebec government.

An announcement that had sowed concern and misunderstanding among immigrants and service managers in the region and the province, including the coordinating office of the CPE The elves, which has three facilities in the region and several family services.

The directive affected 19 children new arrivals registered in its facilities.

Between discomfort and relief

The CPE-BC The elves had already started to contact the parents targeted by the announcement in the past few weeks to tell them the bad news.

Then, Thursday, they received a directive from the Ministry of the Family concerning the maintenance of the status quo.

We contacted all of our managers to whom we had announced that they had to end service agreements to tell them that we keep status quo. So for the moment, we keep childrensaid Nadya Gaudin, logistics coordinator and regulations at CPE-BC Elves on the show Public square.

Luckily, we were in the holiday period. We had several childcare services that were closed. It had not yet had an impact on parents to our great happinessshe continued.

It was not a part of having to tell them to end a service agreement for both the parent, the child and the manager.

A waltz-hesitation

Will this sigh of relief be short-lived? This question remains unanswered for the moment.

By then, new ministerial directives must be sent to CPE Next week.

We are waiting for the new ministry directive which was confirmed this morning [vendredi]. […] Then at the start of next week, he should contact us with a decisionsaid Nadya Gaudin.

If the government decides to return to its initial decision, either to prohibit access to CPE parents who have work permits openthe coordinating offices will have to contact them again.

I think children must stay. We have children who were born in Quebec. They have a civil status certificate. It is certain that we do not want to end service agreementsconcluded Nadya Gaudin.