At the end of 2009, the BC Child Care Advocacy Forum honoured and celebrated a decade of working together to advance a progressive child care vision and agenda.
We agreed at the beginning - as we do today - that BC and Canada need a publicly funded child care system that entitles all children access to quality child care. We agreed this system must honour and respect diversity; must provide families with real choices; and must provide caregivers with wages, benefits and working conditions they deserve.
2009 was our final year of funding from the Vancouver Foundation. We would like to bring closure to our work, celebrate an important era in BC child care advocacy and put our on-going commitment to advocacy to work where it can continue to make a difference.
We believe that First Call's Early Childhood Development (ECD) Roundtable best reflects the spirit and vision of the Advocacy Forum. We agree it makes most sense for the Forum's member organizations to devote whatever time and resources they can to the Roundtable and to ensure that child care remains a priority at that table. And, we have contributed the Forum's remaining resources to support First Call and the ECD Roundtable to carry on the work.
We thank everyone for your support and promise that we will keep at it until BC has the child care system our children, families and communities need and deserve!
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This archive consists of all documents released by the Child Care Advocacy Forum between 1999 and 2010.