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Canada-Saskatchewan Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement

The Canada-Saskatchewan Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement was signed on August 13, 2021.

The agreement [1] and action plan [2] are available online.

Federal and provincial press release

$10 a day child care for families in Saskatchewan [3]
Government of Canada, 13 August 2021

Provincial press release

$10 a day child care for families in Saskatchewan [3]
Government of Saskatchewan, 13 August 2021

Updates and next steps

Government of Saskatchewan offers free training for early childhood educators [4]
Government of Saskatchewan, 15 August 2022

Saskatchewan lowers child care fees by 70% [5]
Government of Saskatchewan, 11 August 2022

The governments of Canada and Saskatchewan announce wage increase for early childhood educators [6]
Government of Saskatchewan, 3 November 2021

Community responses

The governments of Canada and Saskatchewan announce wage increase for early childhood educators [7]
Government of Saskatchewan, 3 November 2021

Advocates celebrate Saskatchewan child care agreement and vow federal election will not end the building of a Canada-wide early learning and child care system. [8]
Child Care Now, 15 August 2021

Canada-Saskatchewan ELCC Agreement has been signed! [9]
Saskatchewan Early Childhood Association, 16 August 2021

Advocates score a major win with a hat trick for child care in Saskatchewan: workers, families, and children are the winners! [10]
Child Care Now Saskatchewan, 13 August 2021

Media coverage

Note: Media coverage is listed from most recent to oldest.

$5.4M in funds boost Sask. childcare wages by $2 per hour [11]
Regina Leader-Post, 15 September 2022

Increased wages for early childhood educators [12]
Penticton Herald, 15 September 2022

Georgia Lavallee: $10 a day child care is great, but we need more money for early childhood educators [13]
Regina Leader-Post, 5 September 2022

Sask Polytech's early childhood education program receives $3.5 million in federal funding [14]
Moosejaw Today, 17 August 2022

Saskatchewan government to fund free training for early childhood educators [15]
Global News, 15 August 2022

Celebrating the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Canada-wide early learning and child care agreement with Saskatchewan [16]
Newswire, 12 August 2022

Child-care fees to go down in Sask. as province works towards $10-a-day goal [17]
980 CJME, 11 August 2022

Sask. aims to license child care homes to fill labour gap [18]
Saskatoon Star Phoenix, 9 May 2022

Sask government adding 28,000 child care spots [19]
Western Standard, 3 April 2022

Providers and parents struggle to navigate Saskatchewan child care regime [20]
Global News, 2 April 2022

1,202 New child care spaces coming to 21 Saskatchewan communities [21]
Government of Saskatchewan, 16 March 2022

Waitlists at licensed daycares growing as new childcare grants come into effect [22]
CTV News, 9 February 2022

Sask. child care centres gear up for affordability plan [23]
Regina Leader Post, 3 January 2022

Saskatchewan allocates 601 regulated child care spaces in 20 communities [24]
Global News, 6 December 2021

Sask., feds take first step toward alleviating child care costs [25]
The Star Phoenix, 19 November 2021

Wage increases planned for child-care workers in Saskatchewan [26]
Northeast Now, 3 November 2021

What the federal election could do to Saskatchewan’s recent child care agreement [27]
Global News, 19 August 2021

'Feels like Christmas morning': $1.1B in federal funds confirmed for Sask. child care just days before expected writ drop [28]
Regina Leader Post, 14 August 2021

Video: Federal and Saskatchewan Governments announce child-care agreement [29]
CPAC, 13 August 2021

$10-a-day child care coming to Sask. by 2025-26: feds, province [30]
CTV News, 13 August 2021

Saskatchewan signs up for federal government’s $10-a-day child care plan [31]
The Globe and Mail, 13 August 2021

Sask. 'on cusp' of reaching billion-dollar child care deal: minister [32]
The Star Phoenix, 12 August 2021

Sask. education minister says child care agreement with feds may come later this week  [33]
CBC News, 11 August 2021

Sask. hopeful to reach a deal with Ottawa on child care plan [34]
CTV News, 11 August 2021

Editorial: Refusing to take questions is lazy, entitled governance [35]
​​Saskatoon StarPhoenix, 23 July 2021

Sask. NDP puts pressure on government to partner with Ottawa on child care [36]
CBC News, 16 July 2021

Peiris: Sask. government should realize benefit of federal daycare plan [37]
The Star Phoenix, 11 May 2021

Advocacy and policy tools

Building a child care system in Saskatchewan: Pathways and pitfalls in policy implementation [38]
Johnson Shoyama - Graduate School of Public Policy, 23 March 2022, 12:00–1:30pm CDT

Roadmap to a quality early learning and child care system in Saskatchewan [39]
Child Care Now, 8 November 2021

Other Early Learning and Child Care Agreements

Canada – Saskatchewan Early Learning and Child Care Agreement - 2017-2020 [40]

Canada – Saskatchewan Early Learning and Child Care Agreement - 2020-2021 [41]

Thu, 09/22/2022

Source URL (modified on 22 Sep 2022):https://childcarecanada.org/resources/issue-files/canada-wide-early-learning-and-child-care-agreements/saskatchewan

Links
[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/early-learning-child-care-agreement/agreements-provinces-territories/saskatchewan-canada-wide-2021.html [2] https://www.canada.ca/en/early-learning-child-care-agreement/agreements-provinces-territories/saskatchewan-canada-wide-2021.html#h2.16 [3] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/21/08/10-day-child-care-families-saskatchewan [4] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/22/08/government-saskatchewan-offers-free-training-early-childhood [5] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/22/08/saskatchewan-lowers-child-care-fees-70 [6] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/21/11/governments-canada-and-saskatchewan-announce-wage-increase [7] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/21/11/governments-canada-and-saskatchewan-announce-wage-increase-early [8] https://childcarecanada.org/documents/child-care-news/21/08/advocates-celebrate-saskatchewan-child-care-agreement-and-vow 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