Canada – Ontario Early Learning and Child Care Agreement – 2017 to 2020 Canada – Ontario Early Learning and Child Care Agreement – 2020 to 2021 Canada – Ontario Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement – 2021 to 2026Affordable child care, a stronger economy, March 6/25Toward $10-a-day: An Early Learning and Child Care Backgrounder, March 6/25
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Agreement/Action Plan
Protect for-profit and non-profit child care spaces, helping to support predominantly female entrepreneurs across the province who provide child care services
Work with municipalities to enrol 5,000 licensed child care centres and home child care agencies into the program by September 1, 2022
Government Announcements/Updates
March 23/23 Ontario Budget: Building a Strong Ontario
March 2023 Canada-Wide Early Learning Child Care 2024 Child Care Funding Formula - Discussion Paper
April 2023 Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement: A Plan for Ontario Families Stakeholder Technical Briefing
March 28/23 Celebrating the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement with Ontario
December 19/22 Ontario Creating More Affordable Child Care Spaces Across the Province
August 2022 Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System Guidelines ADDENDUM TO Ontario Child Care and EarlyON Child and Family Centres Service Management and Funding Guideline (2022)
April 28/22 Ontario Budget: Ontario’s Plan to Build
March 28/22$13.2 Billion Child Care Deal will Lower Fees for Families
Federal investment of $13.2 billion over six years with the province having secured more certainty around out-year funding, including an additional year of funding of at least $2.9 billion
Maintain Ontario’s Child Care Tax Credit program that supports 300,000 families with expenses in licensed and unlicensed child care
Reduce parent child care fees to an average of $10 a day per by September 2025
Provide parent fee rebates, retroactive to April 1, 2022 beginning in May 2022
Hire new early childhood educators and support improved compensation for all Registered Early Childhood Educators
August 15/24More Child Care Fee Reductions Coming for Ontario Families (access Backgrounder)
November 16/23Ontario Announces Comprehensive Strategy to Boost Child Care Workforce and Protect Children
April 2023 Canada-Wide Early Learning Child Care 2024 Child Care Funding Formula Discussion Paper
January 1/23 Ministry of Education, Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Guidelines - For Consolidated Municipal Service Managers and District Social Services Administration Boards
December 5/22Memo: Early Years and Child Care Funding
November 14/22 Ministry of Education: Spending: Plan Review.
April 2022 Ontario Child Care and EarlyON Child and Family Centres Service Management and Funding Guideline (2022)
March 28/22 $13.2 Billion Child Care Deal will Lower Fees for Families
Create approximately 86,000 (above 2019 levels) child care spaces for children five years old and younger by end of 2026
Increase access of Indigenous and Francophone children, as well as children from vulnerable families, to high-quality, inclusive child care by 2025-2026.
May 19/24Building more child care spaces for families in Kanata
May 13/24Creating more child care spaces for families in OntarioOctober 12/23Ontario Delivers 2,889 New Child Care Spaces in London
October 10/23Ontario Delivers 189 Additional Child Care Spaces in the District of Cochrane
March 23/23 2023 Ontario Budget: Building a Strong Ontario
November 14/22 Ontario’s Plan to Build: A Progress Update
Increase the numbers of Registered Early Childhood Educators to 60% of the workforce in licensed child care by the end of 2025-26
February 14/23 Early Years and Child Care Annual Report 2022
Report on indicators by October 1 of each year of the agreement
December 13/24National Progress Report on Early Learning and Child Care 2020 to 2021
December 5/24Ontario’s Early Years and Child Care Annual Report 2024
March 12/24Ontario’s Early Years and Child Care Annual Report 2023
Updated April 11/23 Early Years and Child Care Annual Report 2022
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