Occasional paper series

Occasional paper series

Work-related child care in context: A study of work-related child care in Canada

Publication
Beach, Jane; Friendly, Martha & Schmidt, Lori
Occasional paper 3
1993
70pp

Description

This report describes the results of a survey of work-related child care centres in Canada, examines some of the commonly-held assumptions about work-related child care programs, and discusses the role of work-related child care within the context of broader child care policy.

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Proceedings from the Child Care Policy and Research Symposium

Publication
Edited by Martha Friendly, Irene Kyle and Lori Schmidt.
Occasional paper 2
1993
70pp
$14

 

These proceedings from a one-day symposium on policy-relevant child care research was held at the Learned Societies meetings in 1991. Overviews of developmental psychology, sociology, and economics approaches to child care research as well as current Canadian research on school-age child care, family day care and a model for determining child care demand are presented.

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Child care for Canadian children and families

Publication
Martha Friendly, Laurel Rothman and Mab Oloman
Occasional paper 1
1991
70pp
$5

 

This paper, originally prepared for "Canada's children: The priority for the 90s: A national symposium" held by the Child Welfare League of America/Canada, Ottawa, October 27-30, 1991, describes Canada's child care arrangements and makes proposals for future developments.