New series from CRRU
03/02/22
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Childcare Resource and Research Unit, January 2022
Questions about how child care services will be expanded to move toward greater, more equitable access have become pivotal in light of Canada’s commitment to build a universal child care system. CRRU’s new publication series, Moving from private to public processes: A series on creating child care in Canada (2022), will consist of an overview and eight short papers covering key aspects that can contribute to effective child care expansion strategies. The series is based on a longer CRRU publication Moving from private to public processes to create child care in Canada (2020), which has been revised and redeveloped in an accessible series format to reflect current Canada-wide ELCC policy developments. The papers will be released over the coming weeks.
Series paper one: How child care services are created in Canada
Childcare Resource and Research Unit, January 2022
In Canada, whether or not child care services are available mostly rests on whether private individuals initiate their creation, take it through the development process, maintain it, usually finance it, and sometimes decide when to shut it down. This first paper identifies ways in which child care services are created in Canada and discusses the shifts needed to increase child care supply. The paper argues for a shift in mindset – away from assuming that creating child care is a private responsibility (that is, relying on “the market”) – toward the idea that building a child care system includes a transformational shift to public responsibility for the availability and distribution of regulated child care. This will be key in determining whether Canada “gets the architecture right” for building a child care system that will be able to meet our ambitious goals in the future.
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