The British Columbia 2024 budget, unveiled on February 22 2024, does not increase provincial investment to expand $10aDay child care, says the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC. Instead the province is relying on an increase of $250 million in federal child care transfers to sustain progress to date and support only minor growth….
The governments of Canada and Nova Scotia have released a new Action Plan to continue implementation of the Canada-Nova Scotia Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in the province. Nova Scotia is the second province/territory to reach agreement with the Government of Canada and publish Action Plans for the 2023-2026 period. Agreements are required…
On February 12th 2024, early learning and child care advocates from across Canada joined three webinars organized by Child Care Now to discuss how we can advance our collective goal of making affordable licensed child care available to all families, and inclusive of all children. Child Care Now Executive Director Morna Ballantyne gave an overview…
Morna Ballantyne appears alongside others in an article published by the CBC on the risk of the $10-a-day daycare program collapsing if better provincial and federal funding agreements aren’t offered soon.
We hope you’ll consider joining us on February 12 for a one-hour webinar to discuss what child care advocates can do together to advance our goal of making affordable licensed child care available to all families, and inclusive of all children.
The Newfoundland and Labrador government has just released a report from Deloitte on the Operating Grant Program (OGP) that funds licensed child care centres and family home child care providers in the province. The review found that the OGP does not reflect the real costs of operating high quality ELCC and the report makes a…
What is the OGP? The Operating Grant Program (OGP) was introduced in 2014 and, since its commencement, both non-profit and for-profit providers have been eligible. The OGP has grown significantly over the past decade, both in terms of the number of services accessing the grants and the amount of funding distributed to services. Since 2019…
Morna Ballantyne, Executive Director of Child Care Now, recently shared insights on childcare, along with some guidance for childcare activists and advocates, on episode three of BC’s Path to Universal Child Care. The podcast focuses on the journey to universal child care in British Columbia. It is produced by Westcoast Family Centres. This is the…
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…
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