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CITATION
When referencing any CRRU publications please use the following citation format:
Last name, Initial., Last name, Initial., & Last name, Initial. (YEAR). Name of publication. Toronto, ON: Childcare Resource and Research Unit.
ECEC in Canada
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2023 (14th edition, 28 Aug 2024)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2023: Summary and analysis (EN & FR) ( 28 Aug 2024)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2021 (13th edition, 29 Apr 2023)
- Summary and analysis of key findings: ECEC 2021 and beyond ( 28 Apr 2023)
- A summary of the Canada-wide early learning and child care agreements and action plans (2nd edition, 28 Apr 2023)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada: Background information (Originally developed September 10, 2018. Updated July 15, 2020 & April 24, 2023, 27 Apr 2023)
- ECEC in Canada 2019: Summary and analysis of key findings ( 15 Feb 2021)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2019 (12th Edition, 17 Dec 2020)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2016 (11th Edition, 29 Apr 2018)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2014 (10th edition, 30 Dec 2015)
- Preliminary data: Early childhood education and care in Canada 2014 ( 30 Sep 2015)
- The state of early childhood education and care in Canada 2012 ( 19 Jun 2014)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2012 (9th edition, 27 Aug 2013)
- The state of early childhood education and care in Canada 2010: Trends and analysis ( 4 Feb 2013)
- Public investments in early childhood education and care in Canada 2010 ( 14 Oct 2012)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2008 (8th edition, 31 May 2009)
- Child care space statistics 2007 ( 29 Feb 2008)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2006 (7th edition, 31 May 2007)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2004 (6th edition, 30 Apr 2005)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2001 (5th edition, 9 Feb 2003)
- Early childhood care and education in Canada: Provinces and territories 1998 (4th edition, 30 Jul 2000)
BRIEFing NOTES
- What direction now? Ontario’s Funding and Management Guidelines for 2023 and beyond ( 19 Oct 2022)
- Advocating to ensure governments make affordable child care available for all is a collective responsibility ( 17 Aug 2022)
- Early learning and child care in the 2021 federal budget ( 26 Apr 2021)
- Proposed changes to Canadian maternity and parental leave - October 2016 ( 19 Oct 2016)
- Proposed changes to child care regulations - Ontario 2016 ( 6 Mar 2016)
- Fact or fiction? Seven persistent myths about child care ( 3 Nov 2014)
- Getting less bang for the child care buck – all $6.8 billion of them ( 14 Oct 2014)
- What does the research say about multi-age grouping for infants, toddlers and preschoolers? ( 11 Feb 2014)
- Proposed changes to child care regulations - Ontario 2014 ( 21 Jan 2014)
- Characteristics of unregulated child care by province/territory ( 28 Nov 2013)
- The $17.5 billion question: Has the Universal Child Care Benefit given families “choice in child care”? ( 14 Oct 2013)
- Research evidence on selected aspects of for-profit/non-profit child care programs: A bibliography. ( 31 Oct 2011)
- What research says about quality in for-profit, non-profit and public child care ( 31 Oct 2011)
- Ratios for four and five year olds: What does the research say? What else is important? ( 31 May 2009)
- From vision to action: Early childhood education and care in 2020 ( 31 Oct 2008)
- Why Canada can’t work without good child care: How early childhood education and care supports the economy ( 31 Aug 2008)
- Early learning and child care: How does Canada measure up? ( 30 Sep 2006)
- Canada-wide spending on early childhood education and care 2005/2006 ( 31 Aug 2006)
- It was twenty years ago today... March 8, 1986 (FR & EN, 7 Mar 2006)
- The state of the national child care program and provincial/territorial contexts, March 2006 ( 28 Feb 2006)
- Fact and fantasy: Eight myths about early childhood education and care - Summary (EN & FR, 30 Jul 2005)
- Quality targets in services for young children: Summary ( 31 Oct 2004)
- OECD thematic review of Canadian early childhood education and care: Highlights from the recommendations ( 30 Sep 2004)
- Is child care a good public investment? ( 31 Jul 2004)
- Is child care a good public investment? (EN & FR, 28 Feb 2003)
- Early childhood education and care in Canada 2001: Summary (EN & FR, 31 Jul 2002)
- Ontario’s spending for regulated child care, 1942-2001 ( 31 May 2002)
- Child care by default or design? An exploration of differences between non-profit and for-profit Canadian child care centres using the You Bet I Care! data sets (EN & FR, 31 May 2002)
- Building a firm foundation for lifelong learning: The importance of early childhood education and care ( 6 Feb 2002)
- Is this as good as it gets? Child care as a test case for assessing the Social Union Framework Agreement ( 3 Feb 2002)
- Targeting early childhood care and education: Myths and realities - Executive summary ( 31 Jul 2001)
- Executive summary: Starting strong - early education and care. Report on an OECD Thematic Review ( 31 Jul 2001)
- Early childhood development services: How much will they cost? ( 31 May 2000)
- More than the sum of the parts: An early childhood development system for Canada ( 31 May 2000)
- Fact sheets and summaries ( 31 May 1997)
Occasional paper series
- Canada's child care workforce (Occasional paper 35, 17 Nov 2021)
- Risky business: Child care ownership in Canada past, present and future (Occasional paper 34, 30 Jun 2021)
- Struggles and sit-ins: The early years of Campus Community Co-operative Day Care Centre and child care in Canada ( 30 Jun 2021)
- Federal funding supporting Canadian early learning and child care advocacy, research and capacity building 1988 – 2007 (Occasional paper 32, 17 Nov 2020)
- A bad bargain for us all: Why the market doesn’t deliver child care that works for Canadian children and families (Occasional paper 31, 30 May 2019)
- Child care can't wait till the cows come home: Rural child care in the Canadian context (Occasional paper 30, 29 Sep 2015)
- Work around the clock: A snapshot of non-standard hours child care in Canada (Occasional paper 29, 13 Sep 2015)
- Background paper on unregulated child care for the Home child care: More than a home project (Occasional paper 28, 23 Jun 2015)
- Inclusion of young children with disabilities in regulated child care in Canada. A snapshot: Research, policy and practice (Occasional paper 27, 9 Jul 2013)
- Childcare markets: Do they work? (Occasional paper 26, 14 Feb 2012)
- A matter of choice: A critical discourse analysis of ECEC policy in Canada's 2006 federal election (Occasional paper 25, 13 Dec 2011)
- Innovations in provincial early learning curriculum frameworks (Occasional paper 24, 14 Apr 2010)
- Can early childhood education and care help keep Canada’s promise of respect for diversity? (Occasional paper 23, 14 Jan 2010)
- Canadian early learning and child care and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Occasional paper 22, 14 Jun 2006)
- For-profit child care: Past, present and future (Occasional paper 21 [EN & FR], 14 Oct 2005)
- The OECD and the reconciliation agenda: Competing blueprints (Occasional paper 20, 14 Jul 2005)
- ‘Choice’ discourse in BC child care: Distancing policy from research (Occasional paper 19, 14 Sep 2004)
- Child care by default or design? An exploration of differences between non-profit and for-profit Canadian child care centres using the You Bet I Care! data sets (Occasional paper 18, 14 Aug 2002)
- Reforming Québec's early childhood care and education: The first five years (Occasional paper 17 [EN & FR], 14 Apr 2002)
- An integrated approach to early childhood education and care: A preliminary study (Occasional paper 16, 14 Jan 2002)
- Targeting early childhood care and education: Myths and realities (Occasional paper 15, 14 Aug 2001)
- Women, citizenship and Canadian child care policy in the 1990s (Occasional paper 13, 14 Mar 2001)
- More than the sum of the parts: An early childhood development system for Canada (Occasional paper 12, 14 Oct 2000)
- Child care and Canadian federalism in the 1990s: Canary in a coal mine (Occasional paper 11, 14 Aug 2000)
- How should we care for babies and toddlers? An analysis of practice in out-of-home care for children under three (Occasional paper 10, 14 Jun 1999)
- Neo-conservatism and child care services in Alberta: A case study (Occasional paper 9, 14 Jan 1997)
- Theorizing political difference in Toronto’s postwar child care movement (Occasional paper 8, 14 Jan 1996)
- The great child care debate: The long-term effects of non-parental child care (Occasional paper 7, 14 Jan 1996)
- A sociological examination of the child care auspice debate (Occasional paper 6, 14 Jan 1995)
- Child care: Canada can’t work without it (Occasional paper 5, 14 Jan 1995)
- Rural child care in Ontario (Occasional paper 4, 14 Jan 1994)
- Proceedings from the Child Care Policy and Research Symposium (Occasional paper 2, 14 Sep 1993)
- Work-related child care in context: A study of work-related child care in Canada (Occasional paper 3, 14 Feb 1993)
- Child care for Canadian children and families (Occasional paper 1, 14 Jan 1993)
Other publications
- Child care for whom? A background paper for the Inclusive child care for all project ( 13 Nov 2023)
- A summary of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreements and Action Plans ( 24 Nov 2022)
- More than spaces: Creating universal child care in Norway ( 12 Apr 2022)
- Assessing child care needs and forecasting demand ( 21 Mar 2022)
- Developing non-standard hours child care ( 9 Mar 2022)
- How municipal roles in child care contribute to accessibility ( 22 Feb 2022)
- Building capacity in the non-profit child care sector ( 16 Feb 2022)
- How publicly delivered child care services contribute to accessibility ( 9 Feb 2022)
- How child care services are created in Canada ( 31 Jan 2022)
- Moving from private to public processes: A series on creating child care in Canada ( 30 Jan 2022)
- One year later: Follow up results from a survey on COVID-19 and child care in Canada ( 19 Jan 2022)
- Non-standard work and child care in Canada: A challenge for parents, policy makers, and child care provision ( 30 Jun 2021)
- Moving from private to public processes to create child care in Canada ( 6 Dec 2020)
- Canadian child care: Preliminary results from a national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic ( 2 Jul 2020)
- The pandemic experience has created an uncertain future for Canadian child care services: Highlights of a national survey ( 4 Jun 2020)
- 30 quick facts about Canadian ECEC: Trends & analysis 2008 ( 14 Sep 2009)
- Ratios/class sizes for four and five year olds in ECEC programs: Do we know what’s too big and what’s too small, what’s just right, and what other factors make a difference? ( 1 Feb 2009)
- Broadening and deepening our understanding of quality: Working toward inclusion and equity ( 14 Feb 2008)
- Trends & Analysis 2007: Early childhood education and care in Canada 2006 ( 14 Dec 2007)
- Trends & Analysis: Early childhood education and care in Canada 2004 (EN & FR, 14 May 2005)
- Quality in early learning and child care services: Papers from the European Commission Childcare Network ( 14 Oct 2004)
- The state of data on early childhood education and care in Canada: National Data Project final report ( 14 Jul 2003)
- Fact and fantasy: Eight myths about early childhood education and care ( 14 Jul 2003)
- Making the best use of the You Bet I Care! data sets ( 14 Apr 2002)
- Advancing early childhood care and education in Canada and the U.S, the U.K. and Australia: An international symposium ( 14 Apr 1998)
- The benefits and costs of good child care: The economic rationale for public investment in young children (EN & FR, 14 Jan 1998)
- Assessing community need for child care: Resource material for conducting community needs assessments ( 14 Apr 1994)
- Flexible child care in Canada: A report on child care for evenings, overnight and weekends, emergencies and ill children, and in rural areas ( 4 Apr 1994)
Quality by design
- Quality by design: What do we know about quality in early learning and child care, and what do we think? A literature review. ( 14 Jan 2006)
- Elements of a high quality early learning and child care system (EN & FR, 14 Sep 2005)
- Child care fee subsidies in Canada ( 14 Jun 2005)
- Child care centre physical environments ( 14 Jan 2005)
Video
- Quality child care in focus: What parents should look for (Length: 27min 30sec, 15 Feb 2013)
- Des services de garde de qualité, ça ressemble à quoi? (20m 37s, 2 Feb 2013)
- Dans l'interêt de la population. La garde à l'enfance de qualité ses retombées positives. (Length: 22min 9sec, 14 Jun 1997)
- In the public interest: The social and economic benefits of high quality child care (Length: 22min 15sec, 14 Jun 1997)
- Good childcare, healthy childcare (Length: 10 min 38 sec, 14 Jun 1995)
- Child care by design (Length: 24min 28sec, 14 Jun 1995)