Child Care Now’s Executive Director, Morna Ballantyne, has been appointed to serve on the Expert Panel on Early Learning and Child Care Data and Research recently established by the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development....
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has given Child Care Now Board member Ruth Bancroft an Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Education, Certificate of Achievement. The awards honour outstanding early childhood educators and are given to those who demonstrate...
On May 14, 2019, Child Care Now and a coalition of allies launched the Affordable Child Care for All Plan, a proposed federal strategy to achieve accessible, affordable, quality child care across Canada. The launch also featured the release of a new Oxfam report: Who...
On May 14, 2019, Child Care Now and a coalition of allies hosted an event in Ottawa as part of a major effort to convince all federal parties to commit in their 2019 election platforms to building proper systems of early learning and child care. Members of Parliament,...
A new report by Oxfam Canada, Who cares? Why Canada needs a public child care system, finds that Canada’s ability to close the economic gender gap and simultaneously expand the economy depends on ensuring equal access to affordable child care. The study references...
On June 12, 2017, the Canadian government announced the signing of a Multilateral Early Learning and Child Care Framework agreement with Canada’s provincial and territorial governments. This agreement set the stage for the negotiation of three-year bilateral...
