Some provinces and territories are providing emergency child care services for essential workers.
The information below is compiled of news articles and government releases regarding eligibility and application procedures.
We have also compiled a list of the health and safety guidelines for emergency child care centres [1] across Canada.
Ontario offers emergency child care to more frontline staff [2]
Government of Ontario, 17 April 2020
Ontario protects parents during COVID-19 [3]
Government of Ontario, 10 April 2020
Manitoba provides update on child-care options for families during COVID-19 response [4]
Government of Manitoba, 9 April 2020
Emergency child-care services for essential workers [5]
City of Ottawa, 3 April 2020
Expanded child care for essential workers [6]
Government of Alberta, 01 April 2020
Province outlines next steps for children and students [7]
Government of PEI, 31 March 2020
COVID-19: Emergency daycare services [8]
Government of Quebec, 31 March 2020
COVID-19: Child care for health care and frontline staff [9]
Government of Ontario, 31 March 2020
COVID-19 Guidance: Emergency childcare centres [10]
Government of Ontario, 29 March 2020
COVID-19: List of workers eligible for emergency child care [11]
City of Toronto, 28 March 2020
COVID-19: Child care for essential workers [12]
City of Toronto, 28 March 2020
COVID-19: Provincial government permitting regulated child care services for essential workers [13]
Government of Newfoundland, 25 March 2020
COVID-19: AB: Child care for core service worker [14]
Government of Alberta, 22 March 2020
COVID-19: ON: Ontario to open select child care centres across the province [15]
Government of Ontario, 22 March 2020
COVID-19: ON: List of workers eligible for emergency child care [16]
Government of Ontario, 22 March 2020
COVID-19: City of Toronto to open child care for essential and critical service workers [17]
City of Toronto, 22 March 2020
COVID-19: BC: Province supports child care providers during COVID-19 response [18]
Government of British Columbia, 20 March 2020
COVID-19: Manitoba implementing $27.6-million plan to support child care for essential workers [19]
Government of Manitoba, 20 March 2020
COVID-19: Child care options for health workers and other pandemic response worker [20]
Government of Saskatchewan, 20 March 2020
COVID-19: UK: Parents with these jobs can continue to send their children to school [21]
SkyNews, 20 March 2020
COVID-19: Emergency school based daycare services [22]
Government of Quebec, 17 March 2020
COVID-19: NB: COVID-19: Essential service workers can still obtain child care services [23]
Government of New Brunswick, 16 March 2020
This section provides the health and safety guidelines/protocols for emergency child care operating across Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Please note: Health and safety guidelines/ protocols for emergency child care centres are currently not being updated. Some of these links may no longer be active.
In addition to the CRRU chart, see the Canadian Child Care Federation drop-box, for more health and safety guidelines and protocol documents for ELCC programs/providers.
COVID-19: Protocol for emergency child care plan during COVID-19 pandemic
Compass ELC, 28 March 2020
Essential services child care policy [24]
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, 26 March 2020
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Directives de santé publique à l’intention des éducatrices des services de garde d’urgence à l’enfance/ Public health guidelines for daycare educators Child Emergency Services [25]
Gouvernement du Québec, 22 March 2020
Ideas and practices suggested by childcare services as part of their pandemic service continuity plans [26]
Government of Quebec, 2007
L'association québécoise des CPE: Les Informations à jour [27]
Association québécoise des CPE, 23 March 2020
UPDATED: COVID-19 Guidance: Emergency childcare centres [28]
Government of Ontario, 8 May 2020
Home-based child care operating guidelines for COVID-19
Eastern Ontario Health Unit, 14 April 2020
COVID-19 Response: New guidelines for provincial programs - Child care and LTC, Memo
City of Ottawa, 3 April 2020
COVID-19: Practice guidance [29]
Government of Manitoba, 30 March 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Manitoba early learning and child care practice guidance [30]
Government of Manitoba, 27 March 2020
Information for licensed child care facilities [31]
Government of Saskatchewan, 22 March 2020
COVID-19 Response: Conditions for re-opening select licensed child care centres [32]
Government of Alberta, March 2020
COVID 19: Public health guidance for childcare settings [33]
Government of British Columbia, 24 March 2020
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Public Health Guidance: Enhanced measures at Yukon child care facilities during the COVID-19 crisis [34]
Government of Yukon, May 2020
Links
[1] https://childcarecanada.org/resources/issue-files/child-care-and-covid-19-canada/emergency-child-care-essential-workers/health
[2] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/ontario-offers-emergency-child-care-more-frontline-staff
[3] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/ontario-protects-parents-during-covid-19
[4] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/manitoba-provides-update-child-care-options-families-during-covid-19
[5] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/emergency-child-care-services-essential-workers
[6] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/expanded-child-care-essential-workers
[7] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/province-outlines-next-steps-children-and-students
[8] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/emergency-daycare-services
[9] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/child-care-health-care-and-frontline-staff%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0
[10] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/covid-19-guidance-emergency-childcare-centres%C2%A0
[11] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/covid-19-list-worker-eligible-emergency-child-care
[12] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/covid-19-child-care-essential-workers
[13] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/provincial-government-permitting-regulated-child-care-services-essen
[14] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/child-care-core-service-workers
[15] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/ontario-open-select-child-care-centres-across-province
[16] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6816945/Appendix-a-List-of-Eligible-Workers-En.pdf
[17] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/city-toronto-open-child-care-essential-and-critical-service-workers
[18] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/province-supports-child-care-providers-during-covid-19-response
[19] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/manitoba/20/03/manitoba-implementing-276-million-plan-support-child-care-essential-workers
[20] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/child-care-options-health-workers-and-other-pandemic-response-worker
[21] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/parents-these-jobs-can-continue-send-their-children-school
[22] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/20/03/covid-19-emergency-school-daycare-services%20
[23] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/essential-service-workers-can-still-obtain-child-care-services
[24] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/essential-services-child-care-policy
[25] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/directives-de-sant%C3%A9-publique-%C3%A0-l%E2%80%99intention-des-%C3%A9ducatrices-des
[26] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/ideas-and-practices-suggested-childcare-services-part-their-pandemic
[27] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/covid-19-les-informations-%C3%A0-jour
[28] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/covid-19-guidance-emergency-childcare-centres-0
[29] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/covid-19-practice-guidance
[30] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/coronavirus-covid-19-manitoba-early-learning-and-child-care-practice
[31] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/information-licensed-child-care-faciltiies-covd-19
[32] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/covid-19-response-conditions-re-opening-select-licensed-child-care
[33] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/covid-19-public-health-guidance-childcare-settings
[34] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/public-health-guidance-enhanced-measures-yukon-child-care-facilities