Description:

The Childcare Resource and Research Unit has periodically assembled Canadian data to produce a national snapshot of early childhood care and education. The seventh edition of Early childhood education and care in Canada presents 2005 and 2006 data. These data &em; together with data compiled for earlier editions &em; 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2004 reveal trends in ECEC over a decade and a half.

Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2006 provides cross-Canada data and information on regulated child care and kindergarten by province/ territory, maternity and parental leave together with relevant demographic information. Provincial/territorial profiles on regulated child care include: varieties of ECEC services; number of spaces; standards and regulations; service monitoring and enforcement; funding; history; and recent developments. The Big Picture section presents cross-Canada table compilations of material topic-by-topic. The Long View presents longitudinal cross-Canada tables of information on child care since the early 1990s. Looking Beyond Our Borders is a new section added in this edition; it uses international data and information to put Canada's ECEC in international context. The report also includes a history of Canadian ECEC, an examination of the current state of ECEC, federal ECEC programs including federal transfer payments to provinces/territories, Aboriginal ECEC, further readings and key websites.