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

CFK childcare, serving more than 4000 families is in “voluntary administration” today. The company which has been losing money for some time, hoped that ABC child care centres would purchase the chain. ABC Learning Centres, formerly the world’s largest child care corporation went bankrupt itself just two weeks ago. Despite 110,000 children with no child care, anaylsts in the video say “oversupply” is to blame.

Australian child care is very expensive – even more expensive than in Canada. Might it be a profit-driven model based on building the wealth of shareholders that is to blame?

CFK Childcare goes into receivership

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan has launched a round of cross-provincial consultations to inform the 2009 spring budget. » Continue reading “Province of Ontario Begins Budget Consultations – Sign up and Speak Up for Child Care”

November 7, 2008 – Just one day after the collapse of ABC Learning Centres, the Australian government claims the “number one priority is that people have child care they can rely on”. With 1 Billion dollars in debt, the responsibility for keeping child care centres open will fall to the Australian Government and it is unlikely that all the ABC child care centres will be able to stay open. From the OCBCC, we just want to add “we told you there was no money in child care”!

ABC Learning holds talks with govt

In February 2007, The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care and Ontario Federation of Labour sponsored an eight city tour to warn of the dangers of for-profit child care. » Continue reading “The lessons from Australia continue. ABC Learning is now officially in receivership”

Not just another day for what use to be the world’s largest child care corporation. A true cautionary tale of what can happen when child care is another comodity in the marketplace. ABC’s rise and fall illustrates why we believe that child care is a public service that should be operated on a not-for-profit basis.

ABC Learning in trouble