Windsor council votes to get out of the daycare busines...

EXCERPTS After a long and highly charged debate, city council voted Monday night to get out of the municipally operated daycare business. It means the elim ...

Childcare businesses as social enterprises

Seminar presentations: Social enterprise as a business model with primarily social objectives has received much attention of late as a potential engine of ...

No place for 'big box' child care [CA-ON]

Letter to the editor: The NDP is committed to expanding publicly funded not-for-profit child care that families can afford. So-called "big box" child care ...

All-day kindergarten under threat? [CA-ON]

EXCERPTS Big-box child care is setting up shop in Canada and critics worry it will undermine quality, scuttle chances for a national daycare program and th ...

City of Windsor report recommends closing municipal day...

EXCERPTS City staff are recommending the closure of municipal daycare centres in Windsor and Essex County to trim more than $740,000 from the annual budget ...

Australia- Childcare reformed in wake of ABC collapse [...

EXCERPTS Until recently, Australia was a country that scored badly on any international measure of childcare. For instance, it came near the bottom on the ...

Childcare group in liquidation [NZ]

EXCERPTS A nationwide early childcare service has been put into liquidation. Easy Mind is a home-based service providing care for infants up to 5. It has 1 ...

The bell tolls for profit reapers [AU]

EXCERPTS The ruins of Eddy Groves' international empire, ABC Learning Centres, have been sold to a consortium of non-profit do-gooders known as GoodStart. ...

Private nurseries must wait for funding [GB]

EXCERPTS A plan to divert millions of pounds from state-run nurseries to the private sector, potentially depriving thousands of children of free pre-school ...

Private daycare centres take issue with college operati...

EXCERPTS The operators of a private daycare centre in Corner Brook fear they will lose some of their best employees to a publicly funded operation and, at ...

A great place to grow- public child care

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), along with its partner advocates, has long opposed privatization in child care. CUPE believes public funding ...

Public child care pays off

Child care workers, parents, and activists were at the Vancouver Public Library last night to talk about how to improve child care, as part of a cross coun ...

Forum addresses need for national child-care program [C...

EXCERPTS Considering Canadians are not given transportation vouchers and told to build their own streets, the manner in which child care in this country is ...

For-profit child care is the wrong model [CA-BC]

EXCERPTS We understand that the University of Victoria is facing a child-care crisis -- this is a crisis throughout our region. The Regional Child Care Cou ...

Corporate childcare is not the solution to University o...

EXCERPTS The University of Victoria is facing a child-care crisis. There are not enough spaces in the existing child-care services, so young faculty and st ...

An exploration of the effect of corporate structure on ...

Abstract: This article explores parental and child care staff perceptions of quality across alternative child care governance structures in Australia. Twen ...

CUPE launches public child care tour

CUPE is launching a cross-country tour promoting publicly-delivered early childhood care and education – a move that would benefit children and parents, ...

Why public early childhood education and care?

Description: The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), along with its partner advocates, has long opposed privatization in child care. CUPE believes p ...

Challenges and opportunities in early childhood: Views ...

Growing and watching: For profit organizations cautious...