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Final report proposes a funding framework for early childhood subsidies in community-based services.
The aim is not to produce an Excel spreadsheet that reflects all costs of providing these services, but rather to come up with a proposal as to how government (and the provincial departments of social development in particular) might frame bids to provide subsidies to the providers of these services. In the course of the exercise a further related aim emerged, namely to help develop an application form that provinces could use for soliciting requests for funding from service provider organisations.
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