It’s complicated Each of Canada’s jurisdictions—10 provinces, three territories—has several programs for child care and early childhood education. Theses programs tend to have multiple objectives, such as “giving children the best start in life,” school readiness,...
All provinces/territories license regulated child care services according to their provincial legislation and regulations. Regulated child care services include: centre-based full-day child care regulated family child care school-aged child care most...
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...
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...
As the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has observed: “Significant public funding is necessary to support sustainable and equitable early childhood education. Without this, a shortage of good quality programs, unequal access and...
