Federal Budget 2022, tabled on April 7, 2022, says the federal government’s previously announced $30 billion investment in early learning and child care (ELCC) will achieve “‘a marked improvement in labour market participation by women with children.” However, child care advocates say this objective may not be met because Budget 2022 does too little to…
The Ontario government signed a child care funding agreement with the Government of Canada on March 28, 2022, days before the March 31st deadline. Ontario will lower parent fees for licensed programs by 25% effective April 1, 2022, and another 50% by the end of the year. Fees will drop to an average $10 a…
Child care advocates celebrate the signing of the Canada-Ontario child care funding agreement, but also warn that the Ontario government’s implementation plan is not yet adequate to achieve the promised 86,000 new licensed spaces. “It will be impossible for Ontario to deliver on the much-needed expansion of licensed child care without very big improvements in…
The governments of Canada and Northwest Territories (NWT) recently announced that fees for regulated child care programs for children under 6 years of age will be reduced by an average of 50 per cent. This reduction is retroactive to January 1, 2022, twelve months ahead of the fee reduction schedule set out in the Canada-NWT…
Child Care Now is calling on the federal government to engage in a full public consultation process prior to tabling Canada’s first-ever federal child care law. In February, federal officials circulated a government discussion paper on legislation to a small number of sector stakeholders. In reply, Child Care Now urged that sufficient time and resources be…
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 agreement with the Government of Canada requires the development of a child care workforce strategy including a…
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 Educators of BC (ECEBC). A joint policy note released by the two organizations…
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 expansion program. “The existing federal commitments are insufficient to cover the capital cost…
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 Advocates of British Columbia (CCCABC), Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia…
Directly out of high school, Tina attended college where she trained to become an Early Childhood Educator (ECE). She has served children and their families as an ECE for 26 years. “Child care has been a fun ride,” she says, “but it is a very difficult time right now.” While Tina remains passionate about early…
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