The premier also announced a one-time grant of $500 for trained early childhood educators who work in provincially funded child-care centres.  But Andrea Mrozek with the think-tank Cardus said recent Statistics Canada data shows unregulated home cares represent 71 per cent of the providers in the Nova Scotia daycare and home-care sector.  “These providers and the families that prefer them receive no benefit from the new federal funding,” Mrozek said.  Read the rest of what Andrea had to say in the full article.