TORONTO – A new assessment of early education and child care services by the Atkinson Centre at the University of Toronto finds mixed results for the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) plan. Affordability targets have been surpassed with $10-per-day child care the norm in much of the country, but depending on where you live, finding care has become more difficult.
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Three years after the federal government launched the Canada-wide early learning and child-care plan (CWELCC), our study conducted through the Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development at the University of Toronto finds mixed results in terms of the plan’s ambitions to improve families’ access to affordable child care. Across the country care is less expensive, but finding it is more difficult.
Canada has made strides in improving affordability in the child-care sector in recent years, a new report finds, but the expansion faces major challenges.
It’s been two years since the final province signed onto the federal government’s $10-a-day child-care initiative. Since then, many of the plan’s targets have been surpassed, the report from the Atkinson Centre at the University of Toronto says.
FREDERICTON (GNB) – New Brunswick has ranked first in a report on early childhood education released by the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
“Our province is committed to providing quality early learning and child-care services to New Brunswick families, and the results of this report show how far we have come,” said Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Bill Hogan. “Those who work in the early learning sector are shaping the adults of tomorrow, and they are supporting families who are at work and studying. They work incredibly hard every day and we deeply appreciate the work they do in laying the foundation for our youngest learners.”
Interview with Kerry McCuaig on CBC Metro Morning.
Kerry McCuaig is a co-investigator on the Early Childhood Education Report, which comes out today. She's also a Senior Fellow in Early Childhood Policy at the Atkinson Centre at the University of Toronto.
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Three years after the federal government launched the Canada-wide early learning and child-care plan (CWELCC), our study conducted through the Atkinson Center for Society and Child Development at the University of Toronto finds mixed results in terms of the plan's ambitions to improve families' access to affordable child care. Across the country care is less expensive, but finding it is more difficult.
The Early Childhood Education Report (ECER), released April 25, 2024 by researchers at the University of Toronto, shows that Canada has made great strides since the 2006 study by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) exposed the country as a policy laggard. In the OECD’s damning analysis, Canada came last in a review of early education across 20 member states. Our children were least likely to attend an early learning program, and those programs offered were under-resourced and mediocre.
EducationMay 1, 2024
The following statement was read in the House of Assembly today by the Honourable Krista Lynn Howell, Minister of Education:
Speaker, I rise in this Honourable House to highlight our government’s efforts to improve access to early learning and child care in the province.
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