Excerpt: "The Manitoba government is increasing wages for early childhood educators (ECE), with funding from the 遙ぺ整氈窒-Manitoba Early Learning and Child Care Agreement. The increase will be applied to all ECEs and is the biggest increase in Manitoba history, federal Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hajdu and Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning Minister Tracy Schmidt announced today. In order to provide families in 遙ぺ整氈窒 with high-quality, affordable child care, we need to support the early childhood education workforce with better compensation, said Hajdu. Development that happens in early childhood plays a big role in future learning, so its important to keep highly trained, qualified people in this field and also attract future educators who want to build safe and inclusive spaces where all children are welcomed, accepted, and nurtured. The wage grid sets target wages for various positions within the early learning and child-care sector. This years wage grid focuses on frontline early childhood educators wages, for an increase of up to $5 an hour depending on certification level and the size of the child-care centre. The new wage grid will take effect retroactively to April 1."