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Study Shows Provincial Policies have Positive Impacts on Child Care Fees
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has released the fifth in a series of reports that rank the most and least expensive cities for child care in Canada. Development Milestones: Child care fees in Canada’s big cities 2018 shows that child care fee have...
Low wages for Nova Scotia ECEs impact retention, quality of care
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Nova Scotia office (CCPA-NS) has released Unappreciated and Underpaid: Early Childhood Educators in Nova Scotia. In the report, authors Christine Saulnier and Lesley Frank provide a snapshot of what it is like for Early...
What would be in a child care-friendly federal budget?
Every child in Canada would be able to access high quality early-learning and child care services within 10 years The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Alternative Federal Budget 2019, No Time to Lose, proposed a revised approach to Canada’s early learning and...
Child Care Now 2019 submission to Finance Committee
Federal spending to create universal child care essential to economic growth Child Care Now submitted its recommendations to the House of Commons Finance Committee in advance of the 2019 Budget. The committee requested that submissions focus on measures to ensure...
Community Recommendations for BC’s First Steps toward a Public System of Child Care
British Columbia’s families finally have meaningful progress on solving the current child care chaos In BC’s 2017 provincial election, both the BC NDP and BC Greens made child care the largest area of new spending in their platforms. The $10aDay Plan is a...
Ontario Ministry of Education Releases its 2017 Licensed Child Care Survey Report
The Ontario Ministry of Education has released its 2017 licensed child care survey, which was the third survey of licensed child care centres and home child care agencies (i.e. licensees) conducted by the Ministry. The previous surveys were carried out in 2012 and...
New Report: Effect of Provincial Spending on Social Services and Health Care in Canada
Health Services has published Dutton, Forest, Kneebone and Zwicker's report, Effect of Provincial Spending on Social Services and Health Care on Health Outcomes in Canada: an Observational Longitudinal Study. The study examines escalating health care spending as a...
New Report: Canada-United States Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders
Supporting and growing women-owned businesses In the first of five reports, the Canada-United States Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders recommend, "Considering ways that childcare benefits and other family policies could be updated to...
Lost Opportunities, Lost Incomes
Why families in England need further reform of childcare and early education to get into work Released Jan 1, 2018, this new analysis, Lost Opportunities, Lost Incomes, by Save the Children illustrates that parents- particularly mothers- of young children in England...
Quebec’s Childcare Program at 20
Quebec’s Childcare Program at 20: How it has Done, and what the Rest of Canada can Learn, by Pierre Fortin, offers an economic analysis of and insight into the question, "Have the effects of Quebec's childcare program on mothers' incomes and child development been...