NDP Child Care Plan gets it Right
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NDP Child Care Plan Gets it Right VANCOUVER, September 30, 2019 – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s child care platform, announced today from Vancouver, British Columbia, gets top marks from Canada’s child care advocacy association. “The NDP has done...
New toolkit helps you engage voters and candidates on child care
The 2019 federal election campaign is well underway but there is still time to get the federal parties and candidates to commit to do much more to end the crisis in child care in Canada. Child Care Now has developed a toolkit that provides everything you need to...
RELEASE: Justin Trudeau’s child care announcement is a positive step forward
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 - Child Care Now welcomes Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s child care announcement this morning which promises the establishment of a federal child care secretariat to lay the groundwork for a pan-Canadian child care system and...
Groups across Canada are collecting signatures in support of affordable child care
As the federal election nears, dozens of organizations are mobilizing their members to join Child Care Now’s efforts to get candidates to support the Affordable Child Care for All Plan. Thousands of voters have signed petitions signatures have been coming in from all...
Hundreds march in event to support child care in Manitoba
On August 20, hundreds of families and child care workers marched to raise awareness about the issues facing early learning and child care in the run-up to Manitoba’s provincial election. Organized by the Manitoba Child Care Association (MCCA), the event included...
Government of Canada releases National Progress Report on Early Learning and Child Care
On August 16, 2019, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, released the National Progress Report on Early Learning and Child Care for 2017–18. The report describes steps taken by the provincial and territorial...
Child Care Now Executive Director to sit on Expert Panel on Early Learning and Child Care Data and Research
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....
Child Care Now board member receives Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Early Childhood Education
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...
Advocates launch federal “Affordable Child Care for All” plan
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...
Child care coalition launches federal plan for accessible, affordable, quality child care
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,...
New report finds affordable child care key to closing gender wage gap and economic growth
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...
Canada’s Multilateral Early Learning Child Care Framework Agreement and the bilateral funding agreements between the Government of Canada and the provinces and territories: what do they say and how to they stack up?
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...
Saskatchewan’s Failing Report Card on Child Care
Researchers have concluded that Saskatchewan’s ranking as the lowest of all Canadian provinces for overall quality and access to regulated child care is the result of multiple factors, including an overall lack of funding, outdated assistance guidelines and, most...
2019 Federal Budget Excludes Child Care
Child care has been left out of the federal government’s budget plan even though it acknowledges that the high cost of child care is a putting employment, home-ownership, training and education out of the reach of many parents, especially mothers. “We want to see an...
Child Care Advocates launch a Federal Plan for Affordable Child Care for All
Key national organizations, including Child Care Now, Oxfam Canada, Campaign 2000, the Child Care Resource and Research Unit, have released a federal plan to bring affordable child care to all who want it. “The Affordable Child Care for all Plan is the...