Occasional paper series
Originally a doctoral theses, this paper presents in an abridged form, Friesen's examination of the differences in quality between for-profit and non-profit child care centres the structural features that give rise to these differences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgements
This paper describes the purposes that can be served by child care services and illustrates how it can advance social and economic objectives of national importance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Executive Summary
Chapter I - Introduction
Context
A definition of child care
The purposes that can be served by child care services
The importance of quality in child care services
This paper, originally prepared as a background paper for a conference on rural child care, describes Ontario's rural child care arrangements and makes proposals for future developments.
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.
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.
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.
