how early learning and child care is organized in canada: roles and responsibilities

how early learning and child care is organized in canada: roles and responsibilities As the previous section describes, Canada has recently begun to develop Canada- wide policy to address provision of child care to support women’s equality, mothers’ employment and to provide children with the “best start in life”. [...] Federal GovernMent Child Care FundinG Between the 1995 termination of the Canada Assistance Plan (which provided funds for some aspects of child care as a service for low-income families) and 2017, when new earmarked federal funding became available to provinces/territories for the first time8, most federal government funds to provinces/territories used for child care provision came from broader t. [...] With the introduction of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care plan (CWELCC) the federal government now plays not only a much larger funding role but a larger policy role in child care by setting high-level conditions for how this funding 7 the canada assistance Plan was eliminated by the federal government in 1995, replaced by the canada health and social transfer (chst), a block fund tha. [...] A section of this report entitled FIRST NATIONS, METIS AND INUIT EARLY LEARNING AND CHILD CARE outlines ELCC goals, concerns and aspirations and the status of First Nations, Métis and Inuit ELCC and progress made toward it at the end of 2022. [...] “ the federal government has required provinces/territories to begin making child care more affordable to parents by reducing fees 50% by the end of 2022 and specified that expansion of spaces would “primarily” be in the public and non-profit sectors.” In addition to funding regulated child care through transfer payments to provinces/ territories and Indigenous governance organizations, the federa.