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Early childhood education and care

A great place to grow- public child care

Subtitle
CUPE anti-privatization campaign
Author(s)
various
Source
CUPE
Publication date
2009
Availability
See links below.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), along with its partner advocates, has long opposed privatization in child care. CUPE believes public funding is the way to go, child care programs should not have to rely mainly on parent fees, vouchers or subsidies. As well, there’s no place for profit-making in child care. For-profit child care -a growing sector- is not consistent with high quality programs, and good wages and working conditions for staff.

Now, the union is going a step further. As part of its national anti-privatization campaign, CUPE is advocating for an early childhood education and care (ECEC) system that is both publicly funded and delivered. Excellent community-based non-profit child care programs have been the backbone of providing child care services in Canada for decades. Overall, however, public delivery is most likely to benefit the most children and families.

In October and November 2009, CUPE organized a cross-Canada tour promoting publicly-delivered early childhood education and care. The tour’s slogan was “A great place to grow – public child care”. It featured academics, advocates and CUPE activists, and aimed to raise awareness and mobilize support for public bodies like school boards or local governments delivering child care. Forum participants included Martha Friendly and Susan Prentice, co-authors of the book About Canada: Childcare.

As part of their anti-privatization campaign and promotion for publicly-delivered early childhood education and care, CUPE has provided resources on these important topics.

Why public early childhood education and care?

Provincial profiles
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Alberta
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland and Labrador

Public child care profiles
Toronto, Ontario
Vibank, Saskatchewan
Drayton Valley, Alberta
Sweden

PowerPoint presentations from CUPE BC public child care tour
Adrienne Montani
Susan Harney
Susan Prentice

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