Research and policy studies

On the teeter-totter: The challenges and opportunities for licensed child care in rural, northern, and remote Ontario [1]
Source: Ontario Municipal Social Services Association, May 2011

Needers to leaders: CARS for women and children in rural, remote, northern and Aboriginal communities [2]
[3]Source: Communities Achieving Responsive Services (CARS), Canadian Women's Health Network, 2009
Report in pdf (52 pp.)
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Rural childcare in Manitoba: New economic evidence [4]
by Susan Prentice
Source: Association of Manitoba Municipalities, 2008
Article in pdf (3 pp.)

Rural child care: Childcare as economic and social development in Parkland [5]
by Susan Prentice
Source: Child Care Coalition of Manitoba, 2007
Report in pdf (32 pp.)
- More resources from the Child Care Coalition of Manitoba [6]

Rural child care needs: Commentary [7]
Source: Ontario Federation of Agriculture, 2007
Document in html

Meeting the needs of children and adolescents with special needs in rural and northern Canada. Summary report of a roundtable for Canadian policy makers [8]
by: Judith Varga-Toth
Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks & Centre of Excellence for Children and Adolescents with Special Needs, 2006
Report in pdf (42 pp.)

Rural child care - We're worth it [9]
Source: Rural Voices, 2005
- Discussion paper in MS Word [9] (13 pp.)

Help or hindrance: A policy review of early childhood education and care in rural Manitoba and Saskatchewan [10]
Source: Rural Voices, 2003
Policy paper in MS Word (23 pp.)

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Rural child care report: Task Force on Rural Child Care & Early Childhood Education [13]
by Barbara Brownell
Source: Ontario Federation of Agriculture, 2000
Report in pdf (21 pp.)

Rural child care in Ontario [14]
by Gillian Doherty
Source: Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 1994
Report in pdf (54pp.)

Flexible child care in Canada: A report on child care for evenings, overnight and weekends, emergencies and ill children, and in rural areas [15]
by Martha Friendly, Gordon Cleveland, & Tricia Willis
Source: Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 1989 (reprinted 1994)
Report in pdf (57pp.)

Viable child care options: One parent speaks out
[16]by Joanne Egilson
Source: Child Care Focus, 1993.
Article in html