Posts Tagged ‘child care’
Ontario needs to remove barriers to child-care subsidies for low-income families
Saturday, September 16th, 2023
Ontario’s current implementation plan for child care and early learning agreements runs the risk of leaving disadvantaged families further behind… Inclusivity is explicitly stated as an important goal of the federal government’s Canada-wide early learning and child care initiative… The ultimate solution is publicly funded child care with enough spaces for everyone.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, poverty
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Children’s early learning belongs in neighbourhood schools
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023
Early learning is early education. It belongs under the purview of Ministries of Education. The federal government invested in children’s early learning and child-care because it finally accepted the wisdom of doing so — for children’s learning and development, for families’ well-being, for the economy and for communities optimal social outcomes.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Alternative Federal Budget 2024 – Building Momentum: A budget for now and the future
Monday, August 28th, 2023
The AFB will tax extreme wealth by introducing a progressive wealth tax… restore the corporate income tax rate… to 20 per cent… [and] implement a windfall profits tax… Canadians really can have nice things – if we make our tax system more progressive and make smart investments in public services, income supports, and social and physical infrastructure.
Tags: child care, featured, Health, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Canada Child Benefit payments to increase this month for many families. Here’s how much it’s going up
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
Introduced in 2016, the CCB replaced the taxable Universal Child Care Benefit… The CCB is intended to provide increased support to low- and middle-income families with children. Families with an adjusted net income under $34,863 will receive the maximum amount for each child… The federal government indexed the CCB to ensure benefits keep up with inflation.
Tags: child care, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Where are the Early Childhood Educators?
Monday, June 26th, 2023
Instead of creating more spaces that may end up unfilled, provincial governments need to prioritize funding on ECE attraction and retention. They need to raise wages, encourage career pathways for ECEs, and fast-track foreign credential recognition. They also need to improve working conditions and offer comprehensive work benefits.
Tags: budget, child care, jurisdiction, participation
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Not done yet: $10-a-day child care requires addressing Canada’s child care deserts
Monday, May 22nd, 2023
… child care deserts are a feature of child care provision all across Canada. This reality, which represents the dysfunctional child care market that has developed over time as Canada has, until now, lacked unifying early learning and child care policy and funding… purposeful and rational expansion of public and non-profit licensed child care is a critical next step to ensure that all Canadian families can access the more affordable fees already in play.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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Once a school troublemaker, Charles Pascal died a visionary for transforming education in Ontario
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
… the first full-time executive director of the Atkinson Charitable Foundation… was key in establishing the Ontario Child Tax benefit, the Canadian Index of Wellbeing and early learning policy… The genesis of full-day kindergarten began with a pilot project led by the foundation… providing a model that has been adopted in other provinces.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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A bitter truth: 30 years of child welfare data collection reveals deep systemic inequities, racism and harm
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
The data in this study told a different story from the shocking, high-profile physical and sexual abuse cases covered in media. “The majority of situations we were documenting in Ontario had to do with neglect rather than physical or sexual abuse… most cases revealed toxic combinations of struggling parents trying to raise children within a context of poverty, systemic racism, substance abuse and lack of support.
Tags: child care, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, poverty, youth
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We know better, so why aren’t we doing better in supporting the health of children and youth in care?
Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
The complex health and social issues faced by children and youth in care call for a comprehensive cross-sector collaborative approach to health care… children and youth with child welfare involvement are at risk of bearing a heavier burden of illness than their counterparts who do not have child welfare involvement, as a result of an inequitable system of health-care provision that fails to address their unique circumstances.
Tags: child care, Health, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, multiculturalism, youth
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Ontario should live up to child care deal
Tuesday, October 11th, 2022
… within months of pledging to partner with the federal government, the province was already stripping a series of checks on funding rules that guarded against “undue profits” and “ineligible expenditures” by operators… The federal government, meanwhile, must make clear that Ontario must live up to the deal it signed, in both detail and spirit.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, privatization
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