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For over a decade, the Child Care Fee Survey – led by David Macdonald at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and Martha Friendly from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) – has monitored child care fees in major cities across Canada. Fees are falling, but progress is uneven The recently released results…
A research article, published in the Canadian Publications of Crown College of Canada, affirms the “substantive” achievements of the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program. Through review of available data and existing policy in Canada and two comparison countries – Australia and Germany – the authors make compelling recommendations for ELCC in Canada….
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…
Child Care Now entered into a collaborative research agreement with the University of British Columbia to prepare this report, as part of the Growth by Design project. Authors: Khadija Anjum and Craig Jones, Housing Assessment Resource Tools Read the PDF here (ISBN 978-1-997048-27-5) Executive Summary This report examines the structure, governance, and financing of Canada’s…
Read the PDF here (ISBN 978-1-997048-16-9) Introduction Growth by Design, Child Care Now’s federally funded Innovation Project, is examining and promoting innovative strategies to support the sustainable expansion of public and not-for-profit Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) in Canada. As part of this work, seven provincial and territorial case studies have been undertaken—in Newfoundland…
Read the PDF here (ISBN 978-1-997048-10-7) Introduction and methodology Child Care Now’s Innovation Project: Growth by Design explores, evaluates, and proposes innovative strategies to enhance the sustainability and expansion of public and not-for-profit early learning and child care (ELCC) in Canada. As part of this initiative, seven case studies – in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince…
Read the PDF here (ISBN 978-1-997048-06-0) Introduction and methodology Child Care Now’s Innovation Project: Growth by Design is exploring, evaluating, and proposing innovative strategies to enhance the sustainability and expansion of public and not-for-profit Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) in Canada. As part of this initiative, seven case studies – in Newfoundland and Labrador,…
In 2021, the federal government launched the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care program with the promise to build, over time, a primarily non-profit system of low-fee, high quality, inclusive licensed child care for all children under age 6. Work was carried out through Child Care Now’s Growth by Design project to identify the opportunities…
It takes more than housing to create a thriving community. Access to affordable child care can unlock education and employment opportunities. Child care is an essential aspect of the social infrastructure that should be located alongside homes.
Growth by Design was a three-year research project (2023–2026) focused on understanding the barriers and opportunities to expanding not-for-profit and public child care in Canada.
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