Governance: Education and child care under common ministry
Funding: ECE spending ≥ 3% of Budget
Funding: Mandated parent fee and wage scales
Access: 5 year old full day kindergarten
Access: ≥ 50% 2-4 year olds attend ECE
Access: Funding conditional on special needs inclusion
Learning Environment: Early years curriculum framework
Learning Environment: 2/3 child care staff ECE qualified
Learning Environment: Kindergarten educators ECE qualified
Learning Environment: ECE salaries ≥ 66% of teacher salaries
Learning Environment: ECE professional certification
Accountability: Annual progress reports
Six provincial governments are committed to providing annual progress reports on early child programming
Accountability: Population data reported
Provinces that use the Early Development Instrument or an equivalent tool and reported at least once in the past three years.
Benchmark Totals: Provinces/Territories benchmark totals out of 15