UPDATE: Our response to Ontario Budget 2017: Ontario budget makes a start on child care expansion but leaves major policy directions for upcoming framework.

Moms and moms-to-be are at Queen’s Park Tuesday morning to let the Ontario government know that they are expecting big things on child care in this year’s provincial budget.

Read the OCBCC's Submission in response to Ontario's child care consultations and their discussion paper “Building a better future: A discussion paper on transforming early years and child care in Ontario”.

• Read the OCBCC's pre-budget Brief to the Ministry of Finance and the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs.

An annual study of Canadian child care fees from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) shows that, for the third year in a row, Ontario has the highest child care fees in the country – pointing to an affordability crisis for parents. 

UPDATE: Our petition was presented to the legislature on October 26th, Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day.

To mark Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day on Wednesday October 26th, a new report and thousands of names on petitions shine a light on the challenges faced by Ontario’s early childhood workforce and their growing collective call for decent work.

• To mark Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day, a new report on Ontario’s early childhood educators and thousands of petitions from across the province call on Ontario to commit to a child care system with both adequate wages for staff and affordability for parents.

The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care welcomes the Ontario government's Throne Speech commitment of 100,000 new child care spaces for 0-4 year olds. If achieved, the government's plan would double the current spaces for 0-4 years olds, bringing Ontario to coverage for 40% of children.