Reports


How to Remove the Barriers to Child Care Expansion - A Survey of Non-Profit and Public Child Care Licensees in Ontario

Building Blocks for Child Care | November 2022 Excerpt: "The messages we hear from these survey results comes through loud and clear. Governments can and should act now to facilitate expansion of child care to meet parents’ needs (and to fulfill the promises they have made to parents). Child care...

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How To Make Child Care Expansion Happen In Ontario

Building Blocks for Child Care | October 27, 2022 10 recommendations for action in Ontario to grow not-for-profit and a public Early Learning and Child Career in Ontario.

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Canada’s Children Need a Professional Early Childhood Education Workforce

Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto | April 2022 Canada's child care workforce needs a bill of rights embedded in pending federal legislation, says a new report released by the researchers at the University of Toronto."In the race to lower parent fees and increase access, governments across Canada often overlook the...

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Monitor, Assess, Share - The Early Childhood Education Report

In October 2021, the Atkinson Centre commissioned an evaluation to inform future editions of the ECER in the context of past experiences and in light of the intended development of a Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care system. This new policy direction and accompanying increase in public investment will require...

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Early Childhood Education Report 2020

Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto | June 3, 2021 This is the 4th edition of the Early Childhood Education Report (ECER). Established in 2011, the report is released every three years to evaluate provincial/territorial early years services against a 15-point scale. Results are populated from detailed profiles of each province...

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