Reassembling the child care business
Publication Date:
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Online Document Type:
Research, policy & practice
Source:
Inside Story, Current affairs and culture
This BRIEFing NOTE presents a vision for what an universal early childhood education and care system in Canada might look like from the program to the policy level. It explores the potential for Canada to move from a patchwork of disjointed programs - many of them of mediocre quality -to a comprehensive high quality system and suggests changes that would put such a system in place.
This paper describes eight linked elements that, taken into account together, will form a basis for the creation of a system of ELCC where high quality is the norm rather than the exception.