Description:

To accompany the report "Working for change: Canada's child care workforce &em; Labour market update" the Child Care Human Resources Sector Council has prepared a series of background papers that focus on key human resources issues. The background papers are:

A snapshot of the child care workforce [2]
- Provides a statistical profile of Canada's child care workforce, including valuable information on everything from age and education to diversity and gender.

Child care wages and a quality child care system [3]
- Examines earnings, the impact of education on income, and the impact that child care expansion and funding could have on wages.

The future child care workforce: perspectives of early childhood education students [4]
- Reports the results of a survey of early childhood education students regarding their views on child care, their training programs, and their work prospects after graduation?