BC currently has 8 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. 

The solution

Rapidly switch all/most existing licensed child care programs to $10aDay sites using a single integrated operating funding model.

Learn more

• Two-Pillar child care funding in BC – this technical memo describes why BC must transition from its current system of 8 different operating funding programs to a single, unified "Two Pillar" model that guarantees affordability for all families and fair compensation for all educators. 
  
  
• 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 funding model while addressing the particular risks and accountability issues associated for-profit care. 
  
  
• 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.