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A groundbreaking website linking parents and your local politicians who fund child care!

Are you having trouble finding child care? Affording child care? Do you support publicly funded child care in Ontario? Having trouble finding child care? Having trouble paying for child care? Send a message to your local MPP and MP.

With just your postal code, you can send a message to your Federal and Provincial representatives about child care at www.waitingforchildcare.ca

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Federal Campaign: Tell us Why Canada Needs Child Care!

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Children and families in Canada have a right to access quality, affordable child care services. Yet, only 20% of young children today have access to a regulated space and, in many regions, child care fees are the second highest expense for young families. Early childhood educators (ECE’s) also have a right to be socially valued and properly paid for their work, yet ECE professionals earn about half as much, on average, as other college-trained workers. From grandparents to economists, working parents to student parents, health care professionals to social workers, early childhood educators to university professors – and so many others – everyone has a child care story. Now is the time to add your voice to the chorus of people across Canada who say “We Need Child Care”.
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waitingforchildcare.ca in the news!

Sudbury Star, November 19 – Child-care website launched

A website for parents who are waiting for child care is being launched across Ontario by the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care.

“Parents are still waiting for affordable and available child care and they need a way to send a message to their political representative”, says Cheryl Degras, co-chair of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care.

“Parents need politicians to take a leadership role and solve this issue once and for all.”

The website will be launched in a number of communities across Ontario this month. The website is being launched in Sudbury today.

The website gives parents a quick and easy way to send a message to Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill.

The website — www.waitingforchildcare.ca — invites parent who can’t find or afford child care to send a message to provincial and federal representatives that child care needs public investment.

Thousands of children are on municipal waiting list for a child-care subsidy in Ontario. Even with a subsidy, or for parents who are able to pay for child care, many simply can’t find a child-care space.

“Some provincial politicians still say child care is not an issue in their riding or that the looming recession prevents them from making any new investments in child care.

“In reality, an investment in child care will help families whether economic hardship. Child care is necessary in good economic times and bad” said Jenny Robinson, executive director, Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care.”

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