CWELCC Growth and Participation
The Ministry of Education provided Halton Region with a directed growth plan, which outlines the number of community-based and school-based child care spaces Halton is permitted to add in CWELCC, up to 2026. Halton Region’s spaces allocations by year are detailed below:
Spaces |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
2026 |
Total spaces |
School-based Spaces |
88 |
215 |
194 |
88 |
264 |
849 |
Community Spaces |
0 |
190 |
0 |
0 |
347 |
537 |
Total |
88 |
405 |
194 |
88 |
611 |
1,386 |
For 2025, Halton has limited funding to support enrollment of additional child care providers in CWELCC or for CWELCC-enrolled child care providers to expand and create additional community-based spaces in Halton Region. Halton Region will continue to advocate to the provincial government for additional spaces and funding to ensure as many Halton families as possible receive affordable child care.
Child care space allocations are reviewed annually with the Ministry.
It is anticipated that the next allocation of community-based spaces will be 347 spaces in 2026. Community-based spaces accounts for spaces located outside of schools and includes before and after kindergarten spaces offered by new school projects.
School-based spaces are those located in schools and are determined directly by the Ministry of Education. Halton will add school based spaces each year up to 2026 in accordance with the Province’s directed growth plan, through school-based, child care construction projects which are already planned and underway.