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Early years policy innovations across Canada: A policy success?
Oxford University Press, 8 July 2022
This chapter examines the design successes of early years policies including the Canada Child Benefit (formerly Child Tax Benefit) program, Ontario’s full-day kindergarten and Québec’s maternity and parental leave benefits. The chapter pays particular attention to post-1990 reforms in policy-making, such as focusing on children rather than on mothers, and human capital development concerns as part of an antipoverty and child school readiness strategy. It concludes with an analysis of how federal systems can stimulate policy innovation and policy uptake across jurisdictions, especially with the COVID-induced historical federal involvement in child care.
BC: Ongoing shortage of B.C. early childhood educators raises concerns
Vancouver City News, 10 August 2022
NS: Nova Scotia ECE wages and retention top agenda of upcoming meeting
Global News, 9 August 2022
MB: 'More work to do' one year since historic Canada-Manitoba child care agreement: Advocate
CTV News, 9 August 2022
QC: Un autre CPE en péril à Montréal
Le Devoir, 5 August 2022
US: First lines of classic novels, if no one had childcare.
Lit Hub, 3 August 2022
Research, policy and practice
Maternity leave and paternity leave: Evidence on the economic impact of legislative changes in high income countries
IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 19 May 2022
This review analyzes the impact of maternity and paternity leave policies on children’s health and development, fertility and marriage trends, and mothers' labour market outcomes in high income countries. The examined research suggests significant benefits of a short maternity leave and negative effects of leave extensions on mothers’ employment and wages. However, leave extensions are found to have health benefits for children with highly educated mothers. In addition, there is evidence that paternity leave entitlements increase fathers’ involvement in child care, family stability and fertility. Authors call for further research on factors influencing leave-taking and on the non-monetary effects of parental leave.
Who takes care of the children? Albanian migrant parents’ strategies for combining work and child care in Greece
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 9 March 2022
This paper explores strategies to manage work and child care responsibilities among Albanian migrant parents in Greece. Mothers are found to be more likely than fathers to sacrifice their time and career to fulfill child care responsibilities. The article discusses how migration policies and the lack of family-friendly policies limit migrant parents’ child care strategies and cause them to rely on alternate arrangements such as social support systems. Findings demonstrate how structural challenges at the intersection of migration, labour, care, and gender place constraints on care arrangement options for migrant parents, particularly mothers.
Parental leave uptake among migrant and native mothers: Can precarious employment trajectories account for the difference?
Ethnicities, 20 June 2017
This study examines the differences in parental leave usage among migrant and native Belgian mothers. Results identify the combination of difficult access to stable employment and non-universal eligibility as the main cause of lower uptake of parental leave among migrant mothers. Among those who take leaves, migrant mothers are, however, the least to make use of flexible, part-time leave that allows them to stay in the paid labour force and supports work-family balance. Belgian parental leave policies, therefore, need to address contributing factors to ethnic differences in leave uptake such as access to stable employment, eligibility universality, and barriers to understanding parental leave regulations.
ON: Together, let's build Ontario
Government of Ontario, 9 August 2022
Child care in the news
CA: From child care and housing, to food and vacations, here's how inflation is biting into family budgets
CBC News, 3 August 2022
PE: Parents call on government to stop daycare closure
PEI Canada, 10 August 2022
NB: Esgenoôpetitj's first language camp immerses children in Mi'kmaw culture
CBC News, 6 August 2022
QC: Celebrating the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Canada-Quebec Asymmetrical Agreement on the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Component
Newswire, 5 August 2022
ON: Making child care more affordable, accessible and inclusive for families
Muskoka411, 4 August 2022
ON: CUPE Ontario School Boards Council of Unions (OSBCU) summary of education workers’ bargaining proposals for better working and learning conditions in Ontario’s publicly funded schools
Ontario School Board Council of Unions, 2 August 2022
MB: Celebrating the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement with Manitoba
Newswire, 9 August 2022
MB: MCCA media release – Canada-Manitoba ELCC Agreement – One year later
Manitoba Child Care Association, 9 August 2022
SK: Early learning and child care community enhancement grant program
Metis Nation Saskatchewan, 31 July 2022
AB: School advocates launching Sangudo daycare, share vision
Mayerthorpe Freelancer, 5 August 2022
AB: Government of Alberta chips in to help early childhood educators
Red Deer Advocate, 3 August 2022
BC: B.C. expands early childhood education dual-credit programs for high school students
Government of British Columbia, 4 August 2022
BC: Disabled kids are falling through BC’s child-care gap
The Tyee, 4 August 2022
BC: Early childhood educator bursaries support career growth for key professionals
Government of British Columbia, 3 August 2022
YT: New web hub, learning and professional development resources now available for Yukon early childhood educators
Government of Yukon, 9 August 2022
NT: New scholarship offered for early learning and childcare grads
Cabin Radio, 26 July 2022
AU: Childcare sector reaching crisis point over workforce shortages and low wages
ABC, 10 August 2022
AU: The new pre-kindy: More play for kids, less angst for parents
The Lighthouse, 5 August 2022
US: ‘Peeling back the onion’ on the importance of early childhood education
LINK nky, 7 August 2022
FR: Les crèches pourront bientôt embaucher du personnel non qualifié
Le Progrès, 9 August 2022
FR: « Nous, responsables de crèches, privilégions l’enfant, et nos employeurs l’aspect lucratif »
Le Monde, 9 August 2022
Events
NS: Early childhood education information session (diploma program)
Nova Scotia College of Early Childhood Education, 18 August 2022 19:00 ADT
The Nova Scotia College of Early Childhood Education is hosting an information session on the ECE diploma program. They will be providing information on their ECA program, fast-track ECE program, and prior learning assessment and recognition process
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