1. What are the aims of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care?

The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC), founded in 1981, advocates for universally accessible, high quality, not-for-profit, regulated child care in the province of Ontario.
We are a non-partisan public awareness and advocacy group with broad membership including the education, labour, student and women’s and francophone communities. » Continue reading “Q & A: Information about the OCBCC”

For a copy of our annual report, with information about our organization and our campaigns and activities over the past year, please click here.

To learn more about:
- Status of Toronto public child care
- Why public early childhood education and child care?
- History of municipal child care centres
- Toronto’s other child care roles

Please click here for Toronto, Ontario public child care profile

A terrific e-learning tool for child care staff, ECE’s and Supervisors.  A bi-lingual resource that makes the Day Nursuries Act come to life through an interactive presentation and question and answer exercises.

The website is available at www.childcarelearning.on.ca

To read a press release describing the website, please click here.

Here are helpful resources for basic child care statistics:

Ontario: Statistics and figures on child care funding, spaces, subsidies, and a recent history of child care in Ontario. Click here for Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2008, Ontario Chapter.

For the rest of this National Publication and the fact sheet 30 Quick Facts about Canadian ECEC, please click here.

Human Resources: Number and Education of Early Childhood Educators, click here for A Snapshot of the Child Care Workforce

Human Resources: Child Care Wages and a Quality Child Care System

Why Canada can’t work without good child care: How early childhood education and care supports the economy

We had a busy year including our June 2, 2008 Queen’s Park lobby, Participation in the Canadian Labour Congress Women’s Economic Equality campaign, Kingston Caravan for Child Care, www.waitingforchildcare.ca, Child Care Worker and ECE Appreciation Day, Full Day Learning, the Federal Election, publication of the Child Care Management Guide and Smart Tresurer E-Learning Tool, Equal Pay Coalition and the Stop the Cuts to Child Care Campaign – whew!

For our annual report, please click here.

ABSTRACT:
Theorizing political difference in Toronto’s postwar child care movement examines the complicated history of child care service and advocacy in Toronto between 1942-1953. It reviews how and why the State reorganized and closed down child care centres, and in so doing, how public policy and practices stigmatized child care services. The paper seeks to explain how and why different women participated in this process of reorganization, arguing that instead of seeing such women as ‘dupes’ or ‘sell-outs’, they were constrained by their institutional positions and affiliations. This story has implications for thinking about the limits and possibilities of contemporary child care organizing.

To read this article, please click here.

The OCBCC held an Annual General Meeting in June 2008. Here is a .pdf of our Annual Report which gives information on our structure and purpose, our activities and our executive and council members.

2008 Annual Report