Wednesday October 27, 2010 has officially been announced as Child Care Worker & Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day and will mark the 10th Anniversary of the celebration. » Continue reading “Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day”
10th Anniversary! Our day of celebration will be even bigger than ever! » Continue reading “Child Care Worker and ECE Appreciation Day, October 27, 2010″
Friday March 19: Children’s March from City Hall to Queen’s Park and a press conference with parents about the crisis in child care, click here for more information and press advisory
Winnipeg Free Press (Canadian Press): Dozens of kids, parents rally at Ontario legislature to stop cuts to daycare
CTV News: Ontario parents rally for more child-care funding
Toronto Sun: Parents plead for day care funding
Click here to watch CTV News video: Paul Bliss on Child care rally
Click here to listren CBC Radio One: Child care rally at Queen’s Park
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Daycares across Toronto could close — forcing working parents out of jobs and into their homes — unless Premier Dalton McGuinty’s cash-strapped government replaces a $63.5-million federal funding cut.
“Premier McGuinty, the ball is in your court,” said Andrea Claver, of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care.
Without a restoration of the money, “we will see a catastrophic collapse” in the childcare system, Calver said.
The $63.5 million is the last installment of a childcare program started up by the federal government under former prime minister Paul Martin.
When the Conservatives were elected in 2006, one of their first moves was to cancel the program when its budgeted funding ran out, which will happen this year,
The money supports 7,600 daycare spaces in Toronto, Calver said.
» Continue reading “Toronto Sun: Parents plead for day care funding”
A group of parents are pushing strollers and towing toddlers to Queen’s Park to protest provincial government plans to end subsidies to child-care centres across the province.
Andrea Calver, of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, said dozens of children and their parents delivered giant beach balls to Premier Dalton McGuinty, their way of telling him that “the ball is in his court” when it comes to child care.
“If there isn’t $63.5 million in next week’s budget, we will see a catastrophic collapse of child care,” she told reporters Friday. “We’ll see vacant spaces, higher fees and the closure of some centres. That is the end result of a lack of funding in next week’s budget.”
The parents planned the rally to bolster their demands that the provincial Liberals maintain child-care funding in the coming budget, set for March 25.
In 2006, the McGuinty government took a one-time federal payment for child care and spread it over four years with $63.5 million in funding going to child-care services.
That money runs out this year and without it, the protesters say that Ontario’s entire child-care system could collapse.
» Continue reading “CTV News: Ontario parents rally for more child-care funding”
(March 19, 2010 – TORONTO) Children and parents who rely on quality child care programs were at Queen’s Park today to call on the Premier not to cut child care investments in the up-coming provincial budget. At stake is $63.5 million for 7600 subsidies that help families access affordable child care in Ontario. » Continue reading “Press Release: “Premier the ball is in your court” Parents tell McGuinty not to cut child care”
For immediate release MEDIA ADVISORY Thursday, March 18, 2010
Attn Assignment Editors: News Conference & Photo Opportunity
Parents & children tell McGuinty: The ball is in your court to keep child care centres open » Continue reading “Media Advisory: Parents & children tell McGuinty: The ball is in your court to keep child care centres open”
Thursday March 25 @ 3:45 to 5:30
Toronto City Hall, Members Lounge,
100 Queen Street West
Budget Starts at 4:00 p.m., Media Invited
All Welcome – Join Us!
Questions? Please email info@childcareontario.org or call 416-538-0628
Sponsored by: Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Toronto Coalition for Better Child Care, Ontario Campaign 2000, Building Stronger Futures, Family Supports Institute of Ontario, 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction, CUPE Ontario
Parents and Staff! Child Care in Ontario Faces Catastrophic Collapse
All three levels of Government are dropping the ball on child care funding
Federal: No money for child care in the March 4th budget
Provincial: Child care faces a $63.5 million dollar cut in funding
City of Toronto: 2010 budget proposes to eliminate the rent subsidy for school-based child care programs
But it’s not too late to organize!
Join Rosario Marchese, MPP Trinity-Spadina and Education Critic for the NDP, and the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care for an information and strategizing session
Date: Monday, March 22
Time: 6:30-8:30 PM
Location: Scadding Court Community Centre, Rooms 1 and 2
Address: 707 Dundas Street West
Intersection: Dundas St West and Bathurst Street
» Continue reading “March 22: Information & Strategizing Session on Child Care Funding”
WINDSOR, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – March 5, 2010) – Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Fred Hahn joined parents, child care advocates, child care and child welfare workers today when they walked to tell Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan to include meaningful support for Ontario children in his spring budget, support that will save the nine Windsor day cares now slated for closure.
“This government’s talk about early childhood education and about poverty reduction is empty talk as long as Dwight Duncan refuses to put real money in the budget to keep day cares open and make sure the Children’s Aid Societies in communities like Windsor aren’t forced to cut programming to balance their budgets,” Hahn said today
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