The B.C. government is introducing a new bill to extend the allowable hours of child care centres located on school grounds and expand the eligible age range of children able to use those spaces.

The School Amendment Act, if passed, would permit school districts to offer infant and toddler care on school grounds and allow districts to continue offering child care on non-school days.

Premier David Eby announced the legislation on Tuesday, Oct. 7, explaining the challenges parents who work outside of school hours can face.

"Our days don't start at nine and three," he said. "Life is much more complicated than that."

The province had already piloted this program in districts in Chilliwack, Nanaimo-Ladysmith and Nechako Lakes.

B.C. is working toward the goal of universal $10-per-day child

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