Tri-Cities Parents Scrambling
Tri-City parents scrambling after Port Coquitlam daycare closes suddenly By Tanya Beja Reporter Global News May 1, 2019 Parents in the Tri-Cities are scrambling to find child care after a Port Coquitlam daycare closed suddenly. Kendra Riley paid a $250 deposit in April to secure an after-school spot for her daughter at...
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Putting people first
Launching first phases of universal child care policy through a $10-a-day pilot program John Horgan / Apr. 18, 2019 Wherever I go, I meet people who have had to make difficult choices to help their family get ahead and thrive. Over the past decade British Columbians have struggled with rising costs...
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$10-a-day child care not in 2019 budget
$10-a-day child care not in 2019 budget, but advocate not irked Ashley Wadhwani / Feb. 20, 2019 The NDP’s $10-a-day child care may not have been directly mentioned in the government’s provincial budget, despite it being one of the party’s key election promises, but one advocate says the government is...
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BC Child Care Dilemma
B.C. family wins child care lottery, another 'stuck in the middle' David Molko / February 27, 2019 Susan Tran from Vancouver and Edith MacHattie from Port Moody are like many Metro Vancouver middle class parents. Both are married with multiple children, and both they and their spouses are juggling full-time jobs....
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City of Kamloops receives $25K grant
City of Kamloops receives $25K grant for use in child-care space inventory Jessica Wallace / March 22, 2019 A Kamloops councillor who has been pushing the issue of a lack of child-care spaces in the city is delighted with news the city has received a $25,000 provincial grant to create an inventory of child-care...
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Canadian provinces taking on child care
How Canadian provinces are taking on affordable child care — and how it compares to the world Maham Abedi / March 26, 2019 Alberta’s New Democrats have unveiled an election pledge that would expand its $25-a-day child care plan. The province’s NDP Leader Rachel Notley said the price cap would apply no matter what a...
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Child care study
Child care study money a step towards $10 a day care — advocate Diane Strandberg / March 22, 2019 Grants totaling $75,000 for child care planning in Port Moody, Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam won’t solve the daycare crisis today but will go a long way towards the implementation of a $10-a-day plan,...
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Vancouver Women's Movement
Federal funding aims to help women’s movement in Metro Vancouver Jessica Kerr / March 28, 2019 Fourteen women’s organizations in the Lower Mainland are among more than 250 from across Canada receiving a financial shot in the arm from Ottawa. Back on March 8, which is International Women’s Day, Minister for...
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King County’s child care woes
Clues for fixing King County’s child care woes may be found in British Columbia Ashley Hiruko and Aaron Kunkler / March 30, 2019 Vancouver, British Columbia’s child care issues look painfully similar to those experienced by parents in King County and across Washington state. British Columbia, Canada saw 16 years of worsening...
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Millennials need more government support
COLUMN: Millennials need more government support Wayne Stetski / Apr. 3, 2019 As a Member of Parliament, I represent people in all stages of life and think it’s important to consider the impact of government policies and investments across age brackets. As a parent and grandparent, I hope my children...
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50-year Anniversary
Early child care educators celebrate 50-year anniversary BRITTANY GERVAIS / Apr. 9, 2019 Approximately 250 people, including early childhood educators in Terrace and across the province, gathered at the Sportsplex April 6 to mark the 50-year anniversary of the Early Childhood Educators of BC (ECEBC) organization. There were many activities...
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Squamish Child Care
EDITORIAL: Light at the end of the Squamish child care tunnel The Chief staff / Squamish Chief APRIL 10, 2019 A Squamish new dad says the final straw forcing his family to sell their home and move from Squamish is the lack of accessible and affordable childcare. This is an extreme real-life example...
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Check out the 2019 edition of the $10aDay Plan
We are so pleased to share with you the UPDATED 2019 edition of the popular $10aDay Child Care Plan. This plan for a public system of integrated early care and learning was first launched in 2011. Developed through wide consultation across BC and based on research and evidence, the Plan is the...
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Budget 2019 Continues to Prioritize Child Care - Benefiting Families, Educators & the Economy
Popular $10aDay Plan is the template for building quality, universal child care across BC over 10 years.
Click here to access this press release in PDF format.
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BC Budget 2019 focus on Child Care
Meet daycare ‘lottery’ winners — will there be more in budget? Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist Michael Robinson with his children, 22-month-old Sullivan and five-year-old Clementine. The family’s monthly cost for the kids’ care program has fallen from $1,850 to $350 under a government pilot project. Read more here... Photograph By DARREN STONE,...
$10aDay in the Media Again
Tackling poverty in B.C.—celebrating how far we’ve come and looking ahead Now parents of 2,000 children throughout B.C. are experiencing the joy of $10-a-day childcare through the recently launched prototype program - from the Georgia Straight read more here Interior cities wading carefully into child care studies With wait lists for...
January 2019 Update
2019 is an exciting and historic time for child care in BC. For the first time in a generation, we are on the road to a quality, affordable, public child care system. Key elements of the $10aDay Plan are leading the way. One year into a three year budget of over...
$10aDay in the Media
Duncan’s Parkside Academy chosen for universal day-care pilot project Kelly Hall and Xituluq Hwitsum are delighted that Parkside Academy’s Somenos School site, a not-for-profit child-care centre in Duncan, has been chosen as a Universal Child Care Prototype Site. Read more here... Letter: Time for City of Richmond to hike child...
Times Colonist - Letter to the Editor
Daycare plan allows more women to work Re: “Do homework on all the costs of daycare plan,” editorial, Nov. 25. I was disappointed to read Sunday’s poorly reasoned editorial chastising the government for “raising hopes” with its “reckless” $10-a-day daycare pilot project. The editorial claims that program’s cost will “force...
Times Colonist - Letter to the Editor
Evidence supports daycare plan Re: “Do homework on all the costs of daycare plan,” editorial, Nov. 25. Years of “homework,” including a large and growing number of research studies, consistently find that public investment in high-quality, affordable child care results in large social and economic benefits. These benefits include increased...
$10aDay Progress Summary
BC’s new provincial government has taken first steps to begin implementing universal child care. BC Budget 2018 committed $1 billion over three years to improve access to quality, affordable child care, complemented by additional federal funding of $153 million. Building on its election commitment to the $10aDay Child Care Plan,...
Letter to the Editor in Coquitlam
Read letters from Lynell Anderson and Tara King in the Tri-City News
$10 a day Prototypes a Huge Success
1. Bowen's Kinderhaus selected for $10 a day daycare Parents said it was like winning the lottery on Bowen. Click here for article... 2. Houston parents to pay $10 a day for daycare Beanstalk coordinator says this will make a "huge difference" to local families. Click here for article... 3. Penticton...
Policy Brief: Child Care Access in BC — What’s Working (and What’s Worrying)
PART 2 OF 4 POLICY BRIEFING NOTES • FALL 2018
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$10aDay Child Care Recommendations for BC Budget 2019
Our submission to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services
The Lengths Some Parents Must Go To...
The lengths some Kamloops parents must go just to secure daycare Karen Edwards KAMLOOPS - Emily Anderson didn’t need day care for her son until he was a year old, but she knew she had to start early. She started looking when he was two months old and got on...
Op/Ed Progress on Child Care in BC
In just 14 months BC’s still-new government has taken bold steps to address the child care chaos. Finally, after 16 years of inaction on child care under previous governments, we’re now seeing substantial improvements. Based largely on the evidence-based $10aDay Child Care Plan, government is lowering parent fees, raising educator...
Policy Brief: Child Care Affordability in BC — What’s Working (and What’s Worrying)
PART 1 OF 4 POLICY BRIEFING NOTES • FALL 2018
Click here to download a PDF version of this policy brief.
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Letter to Minister of State Katrina Chen
September 21, 2018 Honourable Katrina ChenMinister of State for Child CarePO Box 9057 STN PROV GOVTVictoria, BC V8V 9E2 Dear Minister of State Chen: Recently we have been contacted by parents and child care providers expressing concern about: Child care fees that, from their perspective, are increasing substantially – despite...
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CKNW Radio Interview
Listen to $10aDay researcher Lynell Anderson CGA CPA, along with Shannon Newman-Bennett being interviewed by Lynda Steele on CKNW radio. They're discussing recent changes to child care in BC...click here
Child Care in the News
PREMIER ANNOUNCES INCREASED INCOME THRESHOLD FOR FAMILIES TO GET CHILDCARE SUBSIDIES How saving on daycare helped a B.C. family afford a bigger home FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL FUNDING GIVES EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS WAGE BOOSTS Bursary, pay increases coming for B.C. early childhood educators IMPROVEMENTS AIM FOR BETTER RETENTION AND RECRUITMENT FOR ECE’S NIC...
Province Launches Affordable Child Care Benefit
BC Government takes one more step towards affordable child care in BC! Parent fees eliminated for most families earning less than $45,000 annually with children under age 3 in licensed child care – as recommended in the $10aDay Child Care Plan. Building on the BC government’s recent Child Care Fee...
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ECE Work-force Strategy Announced!
For the first time in a generation Early Childhood Educators in BC will receive a publicly-funded wage increase. After nearly two decades of government ignoring the growing recruitment and retention crisis in the Child Care sector, new funding for wages and education are very welcome. Now that government is supporting...
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A Letter from June
My Evolution of an ECCE Perspective I have been doing a lot of reflection over my forty-seven years in the ECE profession. With the advent of the current Provincial Child Care plan and the ongoing proposal for the Community Plan for a Public System of Integrated Early Care and Learning...
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$10aDay Plan Welcomes Funding for 22,000 New Spaces
Good news for families across the province! Today the BC government announced the next step on the province’s path to universal child care – funding for the creation of 22,000 new licensed child care spaces over the next three years. Public partners, local governments, school districts, etc. can access $1...
BC Needs More Child Care Spaces – Here’s How…
The BC government has committed to creating 24,000 licensed child care spaces over the next three years, a target that is consistent with the $10aDay Child Care Plan recommendations. As government begins to create these new spaces, we call on them to move away from the old, ineffective Major Capital...
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A Letter to the Minister of State for Child Care
Here's a copy of a recent letter sent to Katrina Chen, the Minister of State for Child Care (click here for a PDF version).
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Child care fee reductions are coming to BC. Here's what you need to know.
As government takes its first steps to implement a system of universal child care, here's the latest on what you need to know.
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An Open Letter to All Licensed Child Care Providers in BC
Dear Colleagues:
On behalf of our two organizations, the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC (CCCABC) and the Early Childhood Educators of BC (ECEBC), we are writing to you at an important time in the evolution of quality, affordable, accessible and inclusive child care in BC.
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What’s next: Advocacy Priorities after Budget 2018
$10aDAY PLAN SUPPORTERS ARE CELEBRATING the BC government’s commitment to building a quality, universal child care system. Child Care BC acknowledges the importance of a fairly- compensated workforce and a system built on affordability for all families.
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Comparing government’s Child Care BC commitments with the community’s $10aDay Plan
IN AN HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH for BC children and families, Budget 2018 commits over $1 billion in new provincial and federal child care funding. Over three years these funds will be used to begin implementing Child Care BC — government’s path to universal child care. This level of public investment delivers...
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Why We Urge Child Care Providers to Opt In to the New Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative:
A Joint Statement by the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC and Early Childhood Educators of BC The BC government’s Child Care BC strategy provides an opportunity for child care providers to receive more direct operating funding (CCOF), with accountability measures, to begin building a universal child care system....
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BC Budget 2018 Media
National Post: Budget puts B.C. on path towards universal child care program: Carole James Global: It’s not $10-a-day, but NDP says $1B childcare plan will help thousands of families CTV: B.C. budget includes housing, child care plans, hikes to employer, real estate taxes Times Colonist: B.C. Budget: Finance minister announces...
BC Budget 2018 Media Release
Media Release from the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC and Early Childhood Educators of BC February 20, 2018 BC Budget 2018 – Historic New Child Care Spending Turns the Corner on BC’s Child Care Chaos Families, Early Childhood Educators, employers and communities across BC - along with our...
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If the BC government adopts the $10aDay Plan, they’ll be in good company
The $10aDay Plan affirms the evidence highlighting the importance of increasing direct operating funding to licensed child care programs, with accountability for capping and lowering parent fees, raising ECE wages, and meeting other quality and access standards. The $10aDay community recommends that this direct funding approach start immediately in BC, with...
Policy Briefing Note — Full Implementation of the $10aDay Child Care Plan: Summary
Key requirements: direct funding of licensed child care programs, with accountability for affordability, quality and inclusion for all who choose them; implementation of Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Framework; and infrastructure strategy. The summary below incorporates the Plan’s full implementation costing over 8 years for children under age 6....
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How the Fight for Child Care Was Won
$10aDay campaign shows a way to bring change — but the battle isn’t over. By Sharon Gregson 3 Jan 2018 | TheTyee.ca ‘The $10aDay campaign didn’t rely on massive funding. Success came because the child-care crisis across BC is so bad that people know there had to be a better way.’ As 2018 starts...
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Kelly Sidhu interviews women about their Child Care situation
$10aDay Supporter Kelly Sidhu interviewed women in her local neighbourhood about their child care situation. Check it out:
If you haven't already, please take 2 minutes to take action and help make sure Child Care is a top priority in the BC 2018 Budget: www.10aday.ca/budget2018
Taking the First Steps towards $10aDay Child Care in the BC 2018 Budget
Click here to send a letter to your local MLA and other key players in government, and let them know you expect action on child care to be a major part of BC's 2018 Budget. In BC’s 2017 provincial election, a majority voted for action on child care. Both the...
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