Abstract

This overview of physical requirements in child care centres in Canada is one of the working documents prepared for Quality by Design, an exploratory project intended to contribute to strategies for improving quality in early learning and child care (ELCC) at the policy level. Part of the project involves identifying, consolidating and transforming information derived from research and other sources into tools that can help improve the quality of early learning and child care. This document summarizes comparable regulatory information from provinces/territories to help inform discussion and strategies for improving the quality of physical environments of ELCC programs.