Australia’s child care movement says “don’t make the same mistake twice”. Selling ABC to another for-profit company could mean Australia continues to pour money from parent subsidies into companies that may or may not be there when Australian families need them. » Continue reading “Australia: Movement to Take Child Care Public”
ABC Learning Centres’ collapse last year heightened parental anxiety about commercial child-care services:
“Victorian Principals Association president Gabrielle Leigh said many schools struggled with the administrative burden of after-school care and embraced private operators.
“Primary schools do not have that extra administrative time and get no extra funding in our school global budgets for providing before and after-school care,” Ms Leigh said. “It means schools can focus on learning and teaching.”
However, she agreed that investing any profits into care programs would improve quality”.
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Evidence continues to grow that Canada is risking our social and economic future by not investing in child care.
From Child Care Watch, Winter 2009
Ontario’s commitment to poverty reduction could be an important step forward for child care. Minister Deb Matthews has said that child care was one of the first issues she heard about in the province-wide poverty reduction consulations. However, the Province’s poverty reduction plan, release just before the holidays, was disappointing from a child care perspective. To read a copy of the OCBCC press release, please click here.
From Child Care Watch Newsletter, Winter 2009.
Waitingforchildcare.ca is taking our campaign across Ontario. To book a presentation in your community, email andrea@childcarontario.org 
» Continue reading “Waitingforchildcare.ca Tour and Outreach”
From Child Care Watch Newsletter, Winter 2009
Effective public investment in these uncertain economic times is a political imperative.
» Continue reading “Ontario’s Provincial Budget Needs Investment in Child Care”
From Child Care Watch Newsletter, Winter 2009
Together, we stopped 123 Busy Beavers from operating in Ontario. » Continue reading “Ontario’s Child Care Movement Takes on 123 Busy Beavers, ABC Learning Centres Bankrupt”
From Child Care Watch, Winter 2009.
Full-day learning, a promise from the last election, can be a huge step forward for early learning and child care. The promise of $500 million dollars in new provincial spending could mean a stronger early learning and child care sector. But only if the program is properly funded and well planned. » Continue reading “Full Day Learning Consultations End”
A message from the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada:
The federal budget makes it perfectly clear that the federal government is happy with its last place ranking on the international child care scale.
From Child Care Watch Newsletter, Winter 2009
With $40 Billion dollars in the recent federal budget, how can it be that not one cent will be spent on child care? » Continue reading “Ontario Must Spend Infrastructure Funding on Child Care Expansion”
