Excerpts from the press release:
Child care advocates are calling on the provincial government to take immediate action on early learning and child care in light of media reports that the government tolerates poor quality in child care programs that they continue to license.
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Ontario's early learning and child care system provides high quality, reliable and developmentally challenging care for children. However, years of underfunding and policy neglect have resulted in a patchwork system where high-quality programs struggle to maintain their standards and keep their doors open, and the majority of children don't have access to a licensed child care space.
At the same time, the provincial government continues to ignore the best available knowledge that clearly shows that high quality early learning and child care is solidly connected to adequate funding and good policy &em; a well-supported system, not a market.