Child Care Now, Canada’s national child care advocacy association, is seeking a skilled and creative bilingual (French/English) Communications Coordinator to help us communicate our advocacy priorities to diverse audiences, expand our spheres of influence, and strengthen our impact. Expected start date by September 30, 2026, or sooner. Terms of Employment It is preferred that the…
A vision and roadmap for increasing educator qualifications in licensed child care centres June 2026 Downloadable version About this roadmap Building a quality public early learning and child care (ELCC) system requires a highly qualified, well-supported, and properly compensated workforce. Developing and supporting such a workforce requires clarifying and reimagining employment roles, scopes of…
OTTAWA, 19 JUNE 2026 – Child Care Now, Canada’s national child care advocacy association, applauds the federal government’s decision to provide an additional $5.4 billion dollars to sustain the Canada-wide early learning and child care program over the next two years, but warns that a longer-term plan to support the child care sector and expand…
Child Care Now is seeking a dynamic and experienced Executive Director (ED) to lead the organization in its next phase of growth and impact on the development of a publicly funded and managed universal and primarily not-for-profit system of child care in Canada. Reporting to and working closely with a volunteer Board of Directors elected…
On October 23 and 24, 2025, Child Care Now’s Educators Matter Project held a National Symposium in Ottawa. Participants gathered to continue the work of developing proposals to all levels of government on how to strengthen the early learning and child care (ELCC) workforce. Participants included members of the National ELCC Workforce Policy Table, representatives…
Child Care Now is calling on candidates and voters in the federal election to Stand on Guard for Child Care in face of uncertainty around Canada’s new $10aDay program. The campaign is aimed ensuring that all political parties and whoever wins the election support and strengthen the program, according to Child Care Now’s Executive Director,…
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…
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.
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The child care movement has long advocated for a universal publicly funded and managed child care system We have called on the federal government to use its spending power and legislative authority to ensure that all children, regardless of where they live in Canada, have access to regulated, affordable, inclusive, culturally safe, flexible, high quality…
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