CBC Manitoba: Southwestern Manitoba regional health authority planning to open daycare to help recruit, retain staff

It’s unusual to see a major employer like Prairie Mountain Health take on developing a daycare, says Susan Prentice, a sociology professor at the University of Manitoba. But she thinks the health authority has to take action on its own to address a failure of public policy.

Child-care facilities are not being developed where and when they are needed, she said, forcing organizations like Prairie Mountain Health, “to step outside their …comfort zone and skill set to try and provide what’s necessary.”

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