The Ontario government announced that on January 1, 2024 it will increase the wage floor for Registered ECEs to $23.86 an hour – up from a planned increase to $20 an hour. Child care advocates point out that this wage floor increase does nothing to improve compensation for non-RECE staff and leaves out any RECE who earns above the floor.
Families across Canada are crying out for access to early learning and child care (ELCC). The federal government’s historic child care initiative has brought down parent fees for licensed child care for children under 6, however, there are only enough licensed spaces for a fraction of those who need it. The federal, provincial and territorial…
Child Care Now’s National Child Care Advocacy Assembly will be taking place this November 18 (Saturday) and 19 (Sunday) both in Ottawa, and online. It is not too late to register to participate virtually.
We are excited to invite you to a webinar called “Inclusive Child Care for All: Strategies and Tools for Advocates,” hosted by Oxfam Canada, Child Care Resource and Research Unit, and Child Care Now on November 14th at 1:00 PM EST.
Child Care Now has called on members of the Senate standing committee studying the federal government’s proposed child care legislation to amend Bill C-35 so as to ensure federal funds for early learning and child care (ELCC) are directed only to regulated and licensed child care programs.
During her appearance before the Senate Committee, Child Care Now Executive Director Morna Ballantyne urged speedy passage of the Bill but expressed concern that if early learning and child care is not properly defined a future government might use the law to authorize public funding of informal unregulated child care arrangements.
Child Care Now joins the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC (CCCABC) in welcoming the announcement of an additional $2/hour in publicly funded wage enhancements for early childhood educators in British Columbia and an additional $2,000 annual top-up for educators with infant/ toddler or special needs certification. The new government funding, which brings the…
The latest annual survey of child care parent fees shows significant fee reductions in all Canada’s major cities. Cities in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nunavut are down to $10 a day. In most cities, parent fees remain highest for infant programs. Despite significant federally-funded fee reductions since 2019, the median infant fee in…
The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC) and Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario (AECEO) have jointly released a position paper and policy brief highlighting the child care workforce shortage and how a publicly funded salary scale can support the successful implementation of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) plan. The position…
Child Care Now is excited to announce that we will be hosting a Child Care Advocacy Assembly this November! We hope you will consider joining us either in Ottawa or virtually on November 18 and 19, 2023.
The governments of Canada and Manitoba have released new Action Plans to continue implementation of the Canada-Manitoba Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement and the Canada-Manitoba bilateral agreement. Manitoba is the first province/territory to reach agreement with the Government of Canada on the content of the Action Plans for the 2023-2026 period. Agreements are…
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