Nunavut-Canada agreement puts priority on recruitment and retention of early childhood educators
Today Nunavut became the twelfth jurisdiction to enter into Canada-wide early learning and child care agreement with the Government of Canada. This leaves Ontario alone without a federally funded plan to make high quality child care universally affordable and...
Nova Scotia’s plan to transform early learning and child care in the province
Nova Scotia’s child care operators have received a briefing on the provincial government’s proposed approach to building a publicly funded system of early learning and child care so that high quality licensed programs can, over time, be made universally accessible,...
Ontario Advocates Continue to Raise the Alarm on Workforce Shortage and Lack of Decent Work
The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC) and the Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario (AECEO) hosted a second emergency Roundtable on January 12th, 2022 to discuss the critical shortage of early childhood educators (ECEs) in the province. The...
Press Release: Child Care Now Nova Scotia is extremely pleased for families
KJIPUKTUK/HALIFAX— Child Care Now Nova Scotia is extremely pleased that parent fees will be reduced more quickly than previously announced. This morning the federal and provincial governments announced that average fees for licensed programs will be reduced by 25 per...
Organizations come together to discuss the future of early learning and child care in Newfoundland and Labrador
In December of last year, the Jimmy Pratt Foundation, the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour, and the Association for Early Childhood Educators NL brought together more than 40 parents, educators, and other advocates for children and families as a first...
Ontario’s emergency roundtable highlights urgently needed change in the early childhood sector
The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC) and the Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario (AECEO), hosted an hour-long emergency Roundtable on December 15th, 2021 in response to the critical shortage of Early Childhood Educators (ECES) in the...
Media Release: Child Care Now on Canada-NB Canada-Wide Child Care Agreement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Child care advocates say new funding set out in Canada-New Brunswick child care agreement must be used to make big changes over next five years OTTAWA, DECEMBER 13, 2021– Child Care Now, Canada’s national child care advocacy organization,...
Annual report card says deep child and family poverty is getting deeper
Campaign 2000 has released its annual Report Card on Child and Family Poverty, No One Left Behind: Strategies for an Inclusive Recovery. Child Care Now fully endorses the recommendations and stands alongside Campaign 2000 and other advocates calling on the 44th...
Ontario child care advocates keep the pressure on
Negotiations have begun between the Governments of Ontario and Canada on how Ontario’s share of the federal government’s $27 billion funding commitment will be used to bring down parent fees for regulated child care services, to expand the number of regulated spaces...
Help make our vision of high quality, universally accessible, inclusive, and affordable child care a reality
The Canadian child care movement has seen immense success. Most recently, the 2021 federal budget announced $30 billion towards building a system of early learning and child care Canada-wide. This announcement would not have been possible without strong, collective...
Child care advocates propose a roadmap to achieving a quality universal system of early learning and child care in Alberta
The child care funding agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta signed last week and the more than $3 billion federal transfer to the province sets the stage for big reductions in parent fees, a major expansion of not-for-profit and...
Saskatchewan governments uses federal funding to drop parent fees retroactively
The government of Saskatchewan has announced a new grant for licensed providers in Saskatchewan so that they can lower parents’ “out of pocket” fees retroactively to July 2021. The fee reduction grants are funded by the federal government and are the first step to...
Alternative Federal Budget
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has proposed an alternative federal budget for 2022 entitled Mission Critical that sets out a comprehensive program to bring about a just and equitable recovery. The proposed budget says building a publicly funded and...
Ontario Municipalities are Calling for a Child Care Agreement Now
The child care crisis in Ontario has reached new heights— wait lists that span years, fees that cost more than mortgage payments, and poor compensation for early childhood educators and other staff has fueled a labour shortage in the sector made much worse by the...
Child Care advocates welcome Canada-Alberta child care agreement and call on Ontario and New Brunswick governments to join effort to build Canada-wide system of early learning and child care
Canada’s national child care advocacy association says the Canada-Alberta child care agreement could more than double the existing supply of regulated not-for-profit child care spaces for the province’s youngest children over the next five years, in addition to...