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...
BC’s $10aDay Child Care Plan: 2019 Update
The team behind BC’s popular $10aDay Child Care Plan, an initiative of the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC and Early Childhood Educators of BC, has announced a 2019 update to the plan for a public system of integrated early care and learning, “As the BC...
New Child Care Centre Coming to l’Université de Saint-Boniface
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie, has announced a $2.1 million federal grant for the creation of a childcare centre at the Université de Saint-Boniface. “This announcement is a significant win for the university...
BC Government allocates $366 million for child care
British Columbia’s provincial government is allocating $366 million to expand access to quality, affordable child care and invest in early childhood educators. The funding represents an increase of nearly $200 million for the second year of the its 10-year universal...
Parent Fee Survey Shows Impact of Government Intervention
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...