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Full Report: Affordable for All

AFFORDABLE FOR ALL: MAKING LICENSED CHILD CARE AFFORDABLE IN ONTARIO Final Report February 2018



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Here is the full final report “Affordable for All: Making Licensed Child Care Affordable in Ontario” as submitted to the Ontario Ministry of Education. This report is still being translated into French, so it is possible that page numbers will change in the final version released by the Ontario Government. Those who intend to reference this report in an academic publication should refer back here in a few weeks for the absolutely final version.

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Press release: More Child Care, More Choice

Providing Free Preschool Child Care for Children Aged 2.5 to Kindergarten

Press release from the Office of the Premier.

“Today Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that full-day licensed child care will become free for preschool children from the age of two-and-a-half until they are eligible to start kindergarten, beginning in 2020. Free preschool child care will save families an estimated $17,000 per child, allow parents to go back to work when they choose and help give children the best start in life.”


More Child Care, More Choice – Providing Free Preschool Child Care for Children Aged 2.5 to Kindergarten

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Executive Summary to Report for the Ontario Government – Affordable for All

This study seeks to answer the question “What is the best way to improve the affordability of licensed child care for infants, toddlers and preschoolers in Ontario?” It seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis of alternative funding and policy options and to recommend steps forward that can dramatically improve child care affordability for families.

After much consideration of evidence and ideas, our main recommendation is that the Government of Ontario should implement free child care for preschool-aged children (30 months to kindergarten age) as an immediate priority. As physical and staffing capacity are ramped up over the next few years, increased affordability for other ages should be phased in.

 

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Does child care in Canada improve social equality?

Recently, Prof. Bob Brym invited me to join others in exploring the issue of equality in contemporary Canadian society.  The occasion was the inaugural S.D. Clark Symposium on the future of Canadian society.  My topic was to assess how good a job child care is doing in Canada in improving different types of equity – gender, child and family.  I’ve attached my (rather lengthy) notes for the talk.  You should look for the volume based on this Symposium to be published soon by Oxford University Press. It will contain chapters from each of the authors, including my own.

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REPORT on Nonprofit and For-Profit Child Care Centres in Canada

This is the final report of a 3-year project studying nonprofit and for-profit child care centres in Canada, by Gordon Cleveland, Barry Forer, Douglas Hyatt, Christa Japel and Michael Krashinsky.  The focus has been to establish whether and under what conditions nonprofit operation of centres will lead to higher quality services.  The authors use four different data sets to answer the question.  Here is a very brief summary.  And here are a few chosen excerpts from the Final Report.  However, Chapter Two of the report provides a more fulsome summary. The report analyzes data from You Bet I Care! (six provinces and one territory), Grandir en Qualite (Quebec), the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (or ELDEQ; Quebec), and data from the City of Toronto.  It includes a reasonably comprehensive survey of relevant literature and information about nonprofit and for-profit child care in other countries.

You can download a PDF of the Final Report.