Today, the Honourable Krista Lynn Howell, Minister of Education, announced the launch of the Provincial Government’s Early Learning Gateway. The Early Learning Gateway is an online platform to help improve access to early learning and child care in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Early Learning Gateway will connect regulated child care service providers with parents and guardians who need child care through a digital waitlist. This will decrease some of the administrative burden of managing a waitlist, streamline processes, and improve efficiencies, all through a secure information collection platform. Parents and guardians will have quick access to waitlist their child or children for any regulated child care service in the province.
The Early Learning Gateway parent portal allows parents and guardians seeking child care the ability to:
- Add their child or children to their profile.
- Search for regulated child care services.
- Add their child or children to a regulated child care service waitlist(s).
- Edit or remove their child or children from waitlists.
The Early Learning Gateway service portal provides regulated child care service providers the ability to:
- View and manage the list of parents/guardians who added their child or children to the service waitlist in Early Learning Gateway.
- View parent/guardian contact information to follow up when a space becomes available.
- Create and manage Early Learning Gateway account access for their administrative staff.
New features will be added in the near future to further support access to high-quality, affordable, and inclusive early learning and child care in the province.
The Early Learning Gateway can be accessed by visiting www.gov.nl.ca/EarlyLearningGateway. Users will be prompted to log in through MyGovNL. If users are not registered, they can easily register with a valid MCP card, driver’s licence, or photo ID issued by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Launch of the Early Learning Gateway is aligned with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador’s commitment to providing high-quality, affordable, and accessible child care that meets the needs of families and service providers. There are close to 9,400 early learning and child care spaces operating at $10-a-day or less in the province, with a further 2,000 spaces in development.
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“As of today, parents can waitlist their child for care with just the click of a button, and service providers will all have access to the same waitlist capabilities. The Early Learning Gateway is a positive step forward for our continued efforts to improve access to early learning and child care throughout the province.”
Honourable Krista Lynn Howell
Minister of Education
“The team at OCIO are pleased to have worked with the Department of Education to deliver this important tool for early learning and childcare providers and families looking to avail of $10/day regulated early childhood spaces.”
Honourable Sarah Stoodley
Minister of Digital Government and Service NL and Minister Responsible for the Office of the Chief Information Officer
“The Early Learning Gateway will streamline the waitlist process and alleviate some of the challenges experienced by parents and guardians as they seek care for their children. It will also support licensees and administrators to provide quality care in a more efficient manner. As a daycare operator, the Early Learning Gateway will decrease some of the administrative tasks so that we can focus on the most important work – caring for and educating children.”
Jennifer Quilty
Apples to Zebras Daycare Inc.
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