Unfair Access
June 2025

This interactive online tool shows the gap to universal child care in each of BC's school districts, and how your access to child care varies significantly depending on where you live.  

Unfair Fees
June 2025

This interactive online tool shows your odds of winning "the $10aDay lottery" in BC's different regions, and the amount of unfair extra child care fees you'll typically have to pay if you're not lucky.  

The Economic Benefits of Expanded Child Care Services in British Columbia
June 2025

This analysis by Dr. Jim Stanford of the Centre for Future Work quantifies the estimated economic, labour market, and fiscal benefits for British Columbia of combined provincial and federal investments in child child since 2019. 

Child Care When Families Need It: 30 Recommendations for Advancing Non-standard Hours and Flexibly Scheduled $10aDay Child Care in BC
May 2025

This publication explores why – and how – to ensure all families can access child care when they need it. It focuses on making BC's 2024 "Test Operating Funding Model/OFM" work better for all types of child care, including both standard and non-standard hours and scheduling (summary | full report).

A Two-Pillar Model: Set Fees for Families and Set Compensation for Staff. Technical recommendations on child care operating funding for policy makers and the sector
Dec 2024 (updated June 2025)

This publication makes the case for rapidly transitioning all licensed child care programs in BC to a "two-pillar" $10aDay operating funding model that sets consistent fees for families and consistent compensation for educators and other staff.

Bringing BC’s for-profit child care operators into a $10aDay model: Technical recommendations for child care policy makers and the sector
Dec 2024

This publication lays out the particular accountability issues associated with for-profit child care, and offers ways current BC policy could evolve to address them en route to a unified $10aDay child care funding model. 

Early Childhood Educator Compensation in BC: Spring 2024 Update
April 2024

This progress report updates our 2023 analysis showing that wages in BC's promised ECE wage grid need to be at least $30-$40/hour to be competitive, equitable and effective – incorporating new information from across Canada and a more-detailed benchmarking methodology.

Early Childhood Educator Wages in BC: Recommendations for a Wage Grid of At Least $30-$40/hour
July 2023

This analysis shows that wages in BC's promised ECE wage grid need to be at least $30-$40/hour for it to be competitive, equitable and effective.
(policy note | 30-min. video presentation)

ROADMAP For $10aDay Child Care in BC
Spring 2022

Organized into eight key themes, this system-building roadmap is the latest version of our comprehensive $10aDay Plan.
(summary | full report)

Child Care Facility Design Standards: Recommendations
May 2023

BC's forthcoming child care facility design standards have the potential to ensure all children and educators can play, learn and work in high-quality physical environments, but only if BC's child care expansion is adequately funded and provincially planned. 

Child Care and the Environment: Intersections and Opportunities
April 2022

This policy note provides ten recommendations to the BC government to strengthen, hasten, and better integrate its ChildCareBC and CleanBC plans.

City of Vancouver 2020 Childcare Grant Analysis
October 2021

The City of Vancouver has historically provided grants to non-profit group childcare programs to enhance quality and help offset the cost to families. This study aimed to assess the impact of increasing funding from senior governments on the City of Vancouver's child care goals.

Accelerating Implementation of the $10aDay Child Care Plan: Key to BC’s Economic Recovery
April 2021

This policy note calls for the BC government to add significant additional child care operating funding and a new capital budget to accelerate $10aDay implementation and help BC's economy recover from COVID. 

$10aday Child Care and ECEs in BC
September 2020

This joint statement from the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC and Early Childhood Educators of BC reaffirms the two organizations' shared commitment to working together to make the goal of a respected, well educated, and fairly compensated ECE profession a reality.

Next Step: A Competitive, Publicly Funded Provincial Wage Grid is the Solution to BC’s ECE Shortage
June 2020

This comprehensive study finds that a provincial wage grid is the best option to achieve fair and competitive wages for Early Childhood Educators. 
(summary | full report)

The $10aDay Plan
February 2019

The 2022 Roadmap (above) can be considered the most recent version of our $10aDay Plan. While this historical version contains some outdated components, it includes additional context for those interested.

Fee Subsidies Are Not the Answer
October 2017

This policy note explains why the best way to ensure child care is affordable for all families is for government to set capped fees (as in $10aDay programs) and directly fund programs, not provide fee subsidies. 

Socio-Economic Impact Analysis of the $10aDay Child Care Plan for British Columbia
January 2017

This in-depth study by economist Robert Fairholm concludes the $10aDay Plan will generate sufficient government revenues to pay for its full implementation, creating 69,100 jobs in the short-term.
(summary | full report)

 

Solving BC's Affordability Crisis in Child Care - Financing the $10 a Day Plan 
July 2015

This study by economist and CCPA public interest researcher Iglika Ivanova shows that BC can easily afford to build a $10aDay child care system (either alone or with the federal government), providing substantial benefits for families, communities and the economy.