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Weekly newsletter of the Childcare Resource and Research Unit  08/12/21

What's happening at CRRU?

This week CRRU is enthusiastically absorbed in an week-long intensive meeting on the next edition of Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada, and hosting frequent collaborator ECEC researcher Jane Beach at the CRRU office. ECEC in Canada 2021 will be published in late Fall 2022. 

We are also pleased to share the new website for the Reimagining Care/Work Policies project; RC/W is a seven year research program committed to expanding possibilities for policies, practices, and meanings of care/work for diverse families in Canada funded mainly by a Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). CRRU's Executive Director Martha Friendly is the child care cluster leader and co-investigator and CRRU is one of the community partners of this project. 

Featured

$10 a day child care will dramatically reduce employment barriers for parents
Childcarepolicy.net, 8 December 2021
This new study by economists Gordon Cleveland and Michael Krashinsky addresses the question of whether the $10 a day program will truly improve child care affordability and reduce barriers to employment for families. The study focuses on the situation facing two-parent families with one infant child and one preschooler in each of the three provinces at different possible levels of income. The authors’ main conclusion is that the $10 a day program can and should dramatically change child care affordability and make employment a worthwhile option for many caregiving parents. The authors also note that some kind of sliding scale needs to be included to ensure that low-income families are not disadvantaged.

Annual report card says deep child and family poverty is getting deeper
Child Care Now, 8 December 2021

Hanes: The unloved labour of daycare workers
Montreal Gazette, 2 December 2021

Research, policy and practice

‘I’m kind of in a dilemma’: the challenges of non-standard work schedules and childcare
Community, Work & Family, 1 December 2021
This study explores the challenges parents who work non-standard hours face in finding, affording and maintaining stable child care. Drawing on a purposive sample of twenty Canadian parents, the study looks into the strategies they use, and the impacts of current child care policies, especially for mothers. The findings show how child care services, labour standards and employment practices must adapt to better serve Canadian families, especially parents working non-standard hours who still have limited access to child care even as child care is increasingly recognized as essential services.

The socioeconomic gap in childcare enrolment: The role of behavioural barriers
VoxEU, 7 December 2021
This German article presents findings from a field experiment demonstrating that disadvantaged families have difficulties navigating the complex child care application process, providing information and accessing personal assistance for applications. The author notes that one's ability to access application support and access services can substantially reduce the socioeconomic gap in child care enrolment. The author concludes that to promote educational equality, policymakers should alleviate behavioural barriers to child care and other social programs.

Quality of early childhood education and care: Examining different conceptualizations and levels of quality
University of Toronto, 30 November 2021
This series of papers explores factors that impact quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC), children’s differential experiences of quality, and associations between quality and child outcomes. The first paper examines the role of educator’s specialization on children’s outcomes and suggests a need to restructure early childhood pre-service education and strengthen evaluation of educator training. The second paper assesses ECEC quality by examining educators’ differential treatment of children. Results indicate that children receive very different interactions with their educators across various domains, and differential treatment was most often associated with child behaviours and the quality of instructional support provided to children. The author raises questions about what is being captured by commonly used classroom level measures of process quality that do not account for the high level of differential treatment found in this study.

Child care in the news  

PEI: Despite recent expansion, long wait-list remains at French daycare in Summerside
CBC News, 2 December 2021

AB: Alberta subsidies slashed ahead of affordable child-care program
Global News, 3 December 2021

QC: As daycare workers continue their strike, unions and opposition present a united front
CTV News, 5 December 2021

ON: Ford’s delay on child care deal with Ottawa hurts families
Toronto Star, 7 December 2021

ON: Education minister says feds now have Ontario's 'full complete financials' amid dispute over child-care funding
CP24, 7 December 2021

ON: Waterloo Region looking at fee increases of up to 88 per cent for licensed home child care
The Record, 6 December 2021
 
MB: Staff shortages a growing problem in child care
Winnipeg Free Press, 26 November 2021

MB: Experts demand daycare plan docs 
Winnipeg Free Press, 1 December 2021

SK: Saskatchewan allocates 601 regulated child care spaces in 20 communities
Global News, 6 December 2021

SK: More employment opportunities for early childhood educators in Saskatchewan
Moosejaw Today, 6 December 2021

YK: Governments support benefits for early childhood educators
Whitehorse Star, 2 December 2021

US: New York City's unsung monuments to working moms 
Smithsonian Magazine, 1 December 2021

US: How child care became the most broken business in America
Bloomberg, 18 November 2021

Events

Emergency Roundtable on the Child Care Workforce Shortage
Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario & Ontario Coalition for Better Childcare, 15 December 2021, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
Join the Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario and the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care on December 15th at 2pm for a roundtable discussion on the child care workforce crisis in Ontario and the changes needed to support retention and recruitment in the child care sector. The AECEO and OCBCC have invited Ministry of Education officials and municipal leaders to listen to voices from the community.

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