BRIEFing notes
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- 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)
- What research says about quality in for-profit, non-profit and public child care ( 31 Oct 2011)
- Research evidence on selected aspects of for-profit/non-profit child care programs: A bibliography. ( 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)
- The state of the national child care program and provincial/territorial contexts, March 2006 ( 28 Feb 2006)
- It was twenty years ago today... March 8, 1986 (FR & EN, 7 Mar 2006)
- 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)
- Fact and fantasy: Eight myths about early childhood education and care - Summary (EN & FR, 30 Jul 2005)
- 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)
- Executive summary: Starting Strong—Early education and care. Report on an OECD Thematic Review ( 31 Jul 2001)
- Targeting early childhood care and education: Myths and realities - Executive summary ( 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)