Budget -$382.5M for Vulnerable Groups and Other Targeted Interventions

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Georgetown: In 2014, a sum of $382.5M has been allocated to consolidate efforts made toward the delivery of childcare and protection services.

Finance Minister in his 2014 Budget presentation said approximately 300 day care facilities are expected to be assessed and the staff advised and trained on regulatory requirements for licensing. In addition training will be conducted in all regions to equip approximately 2,000 parents and primary care givers with skills and information to improve their parenting capacity.

Meanwhile the Minister said in an effort to provide additional support to parents with school age children, “Government will provide this year a cash grant to the parents of every child attending a nursery, primary, or secondary school in the public education system in the amount of $10,000 per child for the year 2014. This grant can be used to meet such costs as transportation, and will provide added impetus to raising enrolment and attendance rates, in addition to having the effect of increasing the disposable incomes of the parents of school aged children. This initiative will benefit the families of the 188,406 families of the students of public nursery, primary, and secondary schools, and will cost a total of $2 billion. “