Early Learning What Parents Need To Know

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QUEEN’S PARK, Oct. 27 /CNW/ – Today’s provincial government commitment to begin transforming early learning programs is a critical first step toward Ontario’s economic recovery and future prosperity, say public education and early learning advocates. » Continue reading “Early learning investment key to recovery”

Come and Join Us !
November 8th, 2pm – 4pm @ Riverdale Collegiate

” Every child deserves decent, affordable early learning and care!! ”

The “Jump Up for Public Child Care” concert is a project of CUPE Ontario, the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care and the Ontario Federation of Labour. This free concert is family friendly and non-partisan.

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“The funding cut represents about a quarter of my entire Best Start operating budget.” Mary Lou White, children’s services manager for the County of Lanark.

” We need a system of services supporting families and children from birth to Grade 1 that includes affordable child care, better access to subsidies, wage subsidies for child-care staff and better access to early identification and intervention services through neighbourhood hubs. ”

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Peter Tabuns, MPP-Toronto Danforth
Shows his support to Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day.

” This year Dr. Charles Pascal, a constituent of Toronto – Danforth will recieve the Annual Award for “Excellence in Advocacy”. If his vision from the report is fully impelment Ontario will dramatically improve the services available to all children from infancy to 12 years of age”
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The ninth annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day is being celebrated on October 21, 2009.

This year for the second time an award to recognize the importance of child care advocacy work will be presented. Dr. Charles Pascal, who authored the report “With Our Best Future In Mind” will recieve the “Excellence in Advocacy” award for new early learning and care vision at Toronto City Hall Members Lounge.

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Add your Voice – Early Learning and Child Care is Good for Canada’s Economy

The Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada asks you to sign on to letter to Federal Members of Parliament supporting the findings of a recent report by the Child Care Human Resources Sector Council which says investments in early learning is the biggest job creator and provides one of the largest GDP impacts of all major sectors. To sign on to the letter, email info@ccaac.ca. For a copy of the letter, please click here.

For a press release and link to the report, please click here.

David Crombie (former Toronto Mayor) and Margaret Norrie McCain (former lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick and co-chair of the Early Years Studies) published their opinions about Dr. Pascal’s Full-day learning report on Toronto Star.

- “Families could access helpful parenting information and resources and affordable on-site after-school activities for their children.”

- “No more ferrying kids back and forth to between school and daycare or recreation programs.”

- “Additional space in schools would be made available to municipalities to transform the array of parenting and child-care programs for younger kids into one-stop child and family centres…”

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In 2010, $63.5 million dollars in federal child care funding expires. The OCBCC ran a major campaign this past spring and Minister Matthews announced $18 million dollars in bridge funding to sustain Ontario’s early learning and child care system. However, the money is a stop-gap measure and just to maintain our current system, we need the Federal government to re-commit to child care funding.

At the annual meeting of the Association of Ontario Municipalities, delegates supported AMO’s position calling for Federal funding. To read the media release, please click here.

Given that the Government of Ontario commitment of $18 million dollars was a stop-gap measure, Ontario’s municipalities have been calculating just how many spaces would be lost community by community. At many of your child care network meetings and Best Start meetings, municipalities have been announcing the local impact of cuts.

At the OCBCC, we are ready to once again focus on our campaign to “Stop the Cuts”. Working with all of you, we were successful in getting “bridge funding” to put off the cuts. But we do not intend on staying silent, we will continue to work with each of you so that these projected cuts to child care spaces never happen.

After all, Ontario does not have enough child care! We can’t afford to lose a single space!

The OCBCC, CUPE Ontario and the Ontario Federation of Labour are sponsoring 6 local community children’s concerts.

The concerts will be great entertainment with popular children’s entertainers and authors.

The concerts will take place in Ottawa, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Windsor and Peterborough.

Please note that unfortunately the Kingston Concert has been cancelled.

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