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 [1]
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 [2]
Gouvernement du Québec, 22 March 2020
Ideas and practices suggested by childcare services as part of their pandemic service continuity plans [3]
Government of Quebec, 2007
L'association québécoise des CPE: Les Informations à jour [4]
Association québécoise des CPE, 23 March 2020
UPDATED: COVID-19 Guidance: Emergency childcare centres [5]
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 [6]
Government of Manitoba, 30 March 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Manitoba early learning and child care practice guidance [7]
Government of Manitoba, 27 March 2020
Information for licensed child care facilities [8]
Government of Saskatchewan, 22 March 2020
COVID-19 Response: Conditions for re-opening select licensed child care centres [9]
Government of Alberta, March 2020
COVID 19: Public health guidance for childcare settings [10]
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 [11]
Government of Yukon, May 2020
Links
[1] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/essential-services-child-care-policy
[2] 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
[3] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/ideas-and-practices-suggested-childcare-services-part-their-pandemic
[4] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/03/covid-19-les-informations-%C3%A0-jour
[5] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/covid-19-guidance-emergency-childcare-centres-0
[6] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/covid-19-practice-guidance
[7] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/04/coronavirus-covid-19-manitoba-early-learning-and-child-care-practice
[8] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/information-licensed-child-care-faciltiies-covd-19
[9] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/covid-19-response-conditions-re-opening-select-licensed-child-care
[10] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/covid-19-public-health-guidance-childcare-settings
[11] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/20/05/public-health-guidance-enhanced-measures-yukon-child-care-facilities