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Notes from the Early Learning and Child Care Briefings at Queen’s Park- March 10, 2010
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Solutions to make full-day learning for 0-12 a real success..
1. Stabilize the “house of cards”- replace the $63.5 million
2. Revise 80% provincial base funding to municipalities based on actual costs with indexation
3. Provide adequate transitional funding to ensure full day early learning program works
“Perfect storm” – precarious funding situation is now brewing..
The four components of the child care funding crisis:
1. Child care base funding not adequate: Growing and compounding problem as funding to municipalities has not been adjusted for inflation in 15 years.
2. Cuts to early learning and child care if $63.5 million is removed from the child care budget. Funding was one-time money from the National Child Care Program which Ontario split over four years and added to the core child care funding budget.
3. “Unconditional grants” ending: Funding from the first year of the National Child Care Program which, delivered late in the year, was transferred to municipalities. Some have used this money to cover gaps in funding – however, funds running out for many municipalities this year, for others next year.
4. General financial pressures impacting on municipal contributions: Many municipalities have additional unmatched spending on early learning and child care.
Full-day early learning, layered on top of an unstable base, will add to the chaos and instability.
Women Moving Forward (WMF) is an innovative program that works to break the cycle of poverty. Since its launch in 2005, we have worked with 106 young mothers who are Ontario Works clients. Through working with the women to develop clear and realistic career plans, WMF supports them in their journey from welfare dependency to financial self-sufficiency.
They send a letter to Premier McGuinty, all provincial MPPs, Prime Misinter, local MPs, the Mayor and our local politicians about the current child care issues and impacts.
To view the letter, please click here
The report is an excellent summary of the financial impacts if the Province fails to maintain the existing level of funding for early learning and child care programs as well as the City’s comments on the Early Learning Program – including school selection and it’s impact on child care centres, the issue of the program being offered for regular school days only, subsidies, wage rates for ECE’s and City preparation for the program.
The main report is 11 pages, well worth a read, including recommendations on pages 1-3. It’s an excellent summary document of the issues in the early learning and child care sector.
Please click here to view the report in pdf. format
Child Care Management Guide III, 2009
The Child Care Management Guide is still available! Click here for more information.
A Guide to Child Care in Ontario (2006) is also still available.
It includes a review of current child care and related policy, barriers to quality care, benefits of child care, legislation, existing services, parental involvement, financing and subsidies, advocacy and the responsibilities of all three levels of government. Through a consultation process that included focus groups, one-on-one interviews, and an online consultation survey, this project included the opinions and perspectives from marginalized communities. This involved the participation of visible minorities, working women, immigrants and refugees, people with disabilities, lower-income groups, single parents, and rural and First Nations communities. This was accomplished through a consultation process that included focus groups, one-on-one interviews, and an online consultation survey. This helped to ensure that the Guide included the sources of exclusion in current child care policy and identified some possible solutions for future policy development.
A Guide to Child Care in Ontario, 2006 - 106 Pages. $20 for OCBCC members; $25 for non-members. For a copy of this publication, please e-mail or call our office.
Woman Power & Politics, 2006, Le Pouvoir des Femmes et la Politique, 2004
This book’s aim is to explore how women can create more power in today’s political systems. The more we learn about the power women can harness in politics, the closer we come to gaining more victories.
44 pages. Hard copy available in both French and English by donation. Please contact us for details.
“Building Bridges: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender and Queer Families in Early Childhood Education”, 2009 (electronic only)
Building Bridges is also in the final stages of publication. This internet-only publication will be available free for download when released.
“Les services de garde en Ontario”, 2006 (electronic only)
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Child Care Management Guide III, 2009
The Child Care Management Guide is in the final stages and is due for release in early 2009. Pricing information will be added when available.
Building Bridges: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender and Queer Families in Early Childhood Education, 2009 (electronic only)
Building Bridges is also in the final stages of publication. This internet-only publication will be available free for download when released.
Our new 2006 version of A Guide to Child Care in Ontario includes a review of current child care and related policy, barriers to quality care, benefits of child care, legislation, existing services, parental involvement, financing and subsidies, advocacy and the responsibilities of all three levels of government. Through a consultation process that included focus groups, one-on-one interviews, and an online consultation survey, this project included the opinions and perspectives from marginalized communities. This involved the participation of visible minorities, working women, immigrants and refugees, people with disabilities, lower-income groups, single parents, and rural and First Nations communities. This was accomplished through a consultation process that included focus groups, one-on-one interviews, and an online consultation survey. This helped to ensure that the Guide included the sources of exclusion in current child care policy and identified some possible solutions for future policy development.
A Guide to Child Care in Ontario, 2006
106 Pages. $20 for OCBCC members; $25 for non-members. For a copy of the order form, please click here.
Les services de garde en Ontario, 2006 (electronic only)
Woman Power & Politics, 2006
This book’s aim is to explore how women can create more power in today’s political systems. The more we learn about the power women can harness in politics, the closer we come to gaining more victories.
44 pages. Hard copy available by donation.
Le Pouvoir des Femmes et la Politique, 2004
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