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.
In addition to the CRRU chart, see the Canadian Child Care Federation drop-box [1], 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 [2]
Compass ELC, 28 March 2020
Essential services child care policy [3]
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 [4]
Gouvernement du Québec, 22 March 2020
Ideas and practices suggested by childcare services as part of their pandemic service continuity plans [5]
Government of Quebec, 2007
L'association québécoise des CPE: Les Informations à jour [6]
Association québécoise des CPE, 23 March 2020
UPDATED: COVID-19 Guidance: Emergency childcare centres [7]
Government of Ontario, 8 May 2020
Home-based child care operating guidelines for COVID-19 [8]
Eastern Ontario Health Unit, 14 April 2020
COVID-19 Response: New guidelines for provincial programs - Child care and LTC, Memo [9]
City of Ottawa, 3 April 2020
COVID-19: Practice guidance [10]
Government of Manitoba, 30 March 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Manitoba early learning and child care practice guidance [11]
Government of Manitoba, 27 March 2020
Information for licensed child care facilities [12]
Government of Saskatchewan, 22 March 2020
Alberta
COVID-19 Response: Conditions for re-opening select licensed child care centres [13]
Government of Alberta, March 2020
COVID 19: Public health guidance for childcare settings [14]
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 [15]
Government of Yukon, May 2020
Links
[1] https://cccf.app.box.com/s/hmr135x840aapkkvklxbehl1rbt4s0jc
[2] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/protocol-emergency-child-care-plan-during-covid-19-pandemic
[3] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/essential-services-child-care-policy
[4] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/directives-de-sant%C3%A9-publique-%C3%A0-l%E2%80%99intention-des-%C3%A9ducatrices-des-servi
[5] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/ideas-and-practices-suggested-childcare-services-part-their-pandemic
[6] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/covid-19-les-informations-%C3%A0-jour
[7] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/covid-19-guidance-emergency-childcare-centres-0
[8] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/home-based-child-care-operating-guidelines-covid-19
[9] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/covid-19-response-new-guidelines-provincial-programs-child-care-and-
[10] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/covid-19-practice-guidance
[11] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/coronavirus-covid-19-manitoba-early-learning-and-child-care-practice
[12] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/information-licensed-child-care-faciltiies-covd-19
[13] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/covid-19-response-conditions-re-opening-select-licensed-child-care-c
[14] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/covid-19-public-health-guidance-childcare-settings
[15] https://www.childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/public-health-guidance-enhanced-measures-yukon-child-care-facilities