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

We had a busy year including our June 2, 2008 Queen’s Park lobby, Participation in the Canadian Labour Congress Women’s Economic Equality campaign, Kingston Caravan for Child Care, www.waitingforchildcare.ca, Child Care Worker and ECE Appreciation Day, Full Day Learning, the Federal Election, publication of the Child Care Management Guide and Smart Tresurer E-Learning Tool, Equal Pay Coalition and the Stop the Cuts to Child Care Campaign – whew!

For our annual report, please click here.

ABSTRACT:
Theorizing political difference in Toronto’s postwar child care movement examines the complicated history of child care service and advocacy in Toronto between 1942-1953. It reviews how and why the State reorganized and closed down child care centres, and in so doing, how public policy and practices stigmatized child care services. The paper seeks to explain how and why different women participated in this process of reorganization, arguing that instead of seeing such women as ‘dupes’ or ‘sell-outs’, they were constrained by their institutional positions and affiliations. This story has implications for thinking about the limits and possibilities of contemporary child care organizing.

To read this article, please click here.