On September 29, students packed into a room for a forum on child care and poverty.
The forum had three speakers:
Andrea Calver ,
Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care
Sultana Jahangir,
South Asian Women’s Rights Organization Liana Salvador,
Ryerson Students’ Union
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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.
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Last year we started an annual award for “Excellence in Advocacy”, Our first recipient of the award was Pauline Marois started Quebec’s affordable, universal early learning and child care program.
This year the CCWAD committee decided to give the “Excellence in Advocacy” award to Dr. Charles Pascal. Ten years ago Pauline Marois made big changes that resulted in real child care system and today has delivered results for Quebec children and families. » Continue reading “Dr. Charles Pascal to Receive Award for “Excellence in Advocacy” as part of Child Care Worker and ECE Appreciation Day”
The Ontario government is under pressure from several groups as it chooses between expanding the role of teachers in kindergarten classes and enlisting cheaper, early-childhood educators in its attempt to implement full-day learning at preschool.
Given the harsh economic climate in Ontario, enlisting early-childhood educators — who earn significantly less than teachers — could save the government a fair bit of money…
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Related Video from CTV News: Support for Early Childhood Education Plan
Click here to read the Open Letter and the List of Supporters
Click here to read Premier McGuinty’s email response, sent just before the Provincial Government announcement on early learning.
More than one hundred prominent supporters of the Early Learning Advisors Report will release an “Open Letter” calling on the McGuinty Government to fully implement the report “With Our Best Future in Mind”.
Links to press coverage follows:
Don’t lose focus on early learning
Toronto Star - Sep 23
In Canada, about three-quarters of women with a child under age 6 are in the paid workforce. Yet there are regulated daycare spaces for only 20 per cent of …
Teachers’ role in full-day preschool plan debated
CBC.ca - Sep 23
The Ontario government is under pressure from several groups as it chooses between expanding the role of teachers in kindergarten classes and enlisting …
Hamilton Spectator - Sep 23
Premier Dalton McGuinty should be very wary of trying to have it both ways in implementing his government’s full-day learning plan. …
Ontario set to roll out full-day kindergarten
Toronto Sun – JONATHAN JENKINS – Sep 23
Full-day kindergarten is on track to start next year and how exactly that full day will be split between teachers and early childhood educators should soon be revealed, Education Minister Kathleen Wynne said yesterday.
INTERVIEW: Pascal report implementation
CBC Here and Now – Matt Galloway – Sep 22
Just a few hours ago, a group of early childhood education advocates called upon Premier Dalton McGuinty to act on recommendations to reform schooling for four and five year olds
Province on verge of giving in to teachers
Toronto Star - Colin Mcconnell - Sep 22, 2009
Kindergarten pupils Destiny Williams, 4, left, and Ricki Perreault, 5, read to their doll in class at Bruce Junior Public School on Larchmount Ave. …
Support for early childhood education plan
CTV News Sep. 22
More than one hundred individuals and organizations are sending Premier Dalton McGuinty a message about education…
Metro Canada – Toronto - Colin Mcconnell - Sep 21, 2009
Teacher Dora Dilic reads to her kindergarten class at Bruce Junior Public School yesterday. The province is close to approving a plan to put kindergarten
” It aren’t going to move ahead into a some kind of a better developed policy system without a national policy that works with the provinces, that picks up the interest in early childhood education and care, tries to pull them together..” said Martha Friendly, who helped write the eighth biannual report for the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
” 77 % of the women that are working right now, most of them cannot find decent affordable regulated child care for their children,” said the Toronto MP.
Ontario Child Care is struggling under the strain of chronic under-funding.
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Subsidized child care in Waterloo Region could be facing cuts as regional council grapples with a $1.7 million loss in government funding.
Key problem is the federal government’s decision in 2006 to cancel a national, $5-billion plan for child care.
Regional Chair Ken Seiling said council will have to decide whether to cut subsidized child care, or fund the shortfall or a combination of both.
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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
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for a pdf copy of this bulletin, please click here.
Special Information Bulletin # 5 for the Early Learning and Child Care Community on:
How Much Will the Full Implementation of the Report Cost? How Much Funding is Committed today? » Continue reading “Bulletin #5: How Much Will the Full Implementation of the Report Cost? How Much Funding is Committed today?”
Kim Rudd was delcared the riding’s Liberal candidate in the next federal election. Congratulation! Almost 920 votes!
” Rudd has a special interest in child care as she co-founded a day care in Cobourg in 1985 and later became co-chair of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care and the Ontario board member and chair of the Human Resources Committee of Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada.”
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