Hamilton is offering free emergency child care to essential workers during COVID-19

In an effort to ease the burden on Hamilton’s health care professionals and other essential front-line workers during COVID-19, the city is offering emergency child care services from three licensed home child care agencies.

Local essential workers eligible for this program include those working in health care, police, fire, paramedics, public health, HSR, long-term care, and correctional officers.

The City of Hamilton has partnered with our three licensed home child care agencies to offer emergency licensed home child care to health care and other essential frontline workers during the pandemic, free of charge. (THREAD) 👇

— City of Hamilton (@cityofhamilton) March 24, 2020

In the midst of this unprecedented global pandemic, Hamilton’s essential service workers find themselves working more intense, demanding, and unpredictable daily schedules. The child care service is intended to help these workers easily access home child care for children aged 12 months to 12 years in the event of an emergency.

The three licensed agencies – Today’s Family, Wee Watch Galbraith, and Wee Watch Golfwood – all feature providers who offer child care services out of their homes for shifts of up to 12 hours.

Naturally, all three agencies are also working with Hamilton Public Health to ensure the safest practices in the midst of COVID-19, including having children and staff who are ill stay home, diligent hygiene and sanitation, increasing environmental sanitation measures, and ensuring families who have travelled out of province stay home from child care for at least 14 days.

More details on the program can be found on the City of Hamilton website.

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