BC currently has 7 different child care operating funding programs, resulting in inconsistent parent fees, wages, and often-inadequate day-to-day funding levels across the system, putting existing child care spaces at risk. Only ~10% of existing licensed spaces in BC are true $10aDay sites. This makes $10aDay child care in BC a lottery, with unfair fees for everyone who doesn't win.
The solution
Rapidly switch all/most existing licensed, publicly-funded child care programs to $10aDay sites using a single integrated operating funding model.
Learn more
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Two-Pillar child care funding in BC – this technical memo describes why BC must transition from its current system of 7 different operating funding programs to a single, unified "Two Pillar" model that guarantees affordability for all families and fair compensation for all educators.
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Bringing BC’s for-profit child care operators into a $10aDay model – provides updated technical recommendations about how to welcome BC's large proportion of for-profit child care operators into a single, unified $10aDay funding model while addressing the particular risks and accountability issues associated for-profit care.
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My Business and $10aDay – written for child care business owners, this article recognizes the important contributions of these owners but describes why relying on child care entrepreneurs to further build out BC’s universal child care system is problematic.
- Child care when families need it – This publication explores why – and how – to ensure all families can access $10aDay child care when they need it. Many of its 30 recommendations are about how to make BC's $10aDay operating funding model work better, so that all programs can be switched over to it.
