Advocates in Nova Scotia call for proper compensation and benefits for early childhood educators
Child Care Now Nova Scotia recently launched The Time is Now campaign to improve the compensation and working conditions of the province’s early childhood educators (ECEs). The Nova Scotia government’s federal-provincial early learning and child care recent funding...
Universal child care essential to the transition to a clean economy
The BC government can accelerate the province’s transition to both universal child care and a clean economy by taking an intersectional approach to child care and environmental policy change, say the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC (CCCABC) and Early Childhood...
Child Care Now calls on federal government to introduce a child care capital expansion program to support creation of promised 200,000 new licensed spaces
Child Care Now’s submission to the Department of Finance’s 2022 pre budget consultation says the federal government’s promise of at least 200,000 new licensed early learning and child care spaces over the next five years cannot be realized without a federal capital...
Update on BC’s early learning and child care plan
Child care advocates in BC have updated their roadmap to guide the construction of a fully comprehensive high quality system of early learning and child care in the province. The plan, which was presented during a webinar organized by the Coalition of Child Care...
Ontario still the lone holdout for Canada’s system of ELCC: Advocates continue their calls for a good agreement now
It has been almost one year since the historic 2021 federal budget announced $30 billion in funding over the next five years to build a Canada-wide system of early learning and child care (ELCC). While 12 out of 13 provinces and territories have signed agreements and...
Commercial child care operators object to Nova Scotia’s ELCC plan
--Some commercial operators mobilize to oppose change. Child care advocates welcomed Nova Scotia’s recently announced plan to transform how licensed child care services are funded and managed, but the province’s commercial providers say the proposed changes will make...
What governments in Canada are doing and not doing to protect staff and children in child care centres
Country-wide, many ECEs and child care workers have been forced to work in unsafe conditions. Even with the release of the COVID-19 vaccine and booster doses, children under five years of age cannot be vaccinated, leaving ECEs and child care workers working in...
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...