Feasibility study of universal affordable day care in the Northwest Territories / : Feasibility study : universal affordable day care in the Northwest Territories

Postdoctoral Fellow Atkinson Centre/University of Toronto Centre/University of Toronto Feasibility study of universal, affordable daycare in the Northwest Territories Acknowledgements The researchers would like to thank the parents, early childhood and school staff and administrators, community leaders and GNWT officials who gave so generously of their time and resources to assist in the developme [...] The contractor (hereafter called the “researchers”) was asked to: Review the NWT’s child care governance and funding structures, assessing strengths, limitations and compatibility with the new direction outlined in the Right from the Start: A Framework for Early Childhood Development in the Northwest Territories and the associated Action Plan. [...] Using document and demographic analysis supplied by the department and through a survey of child care operators, analyze current child care service capacity in the NWT to establish current enrolment in child care programs by region, auspice, age of child and family types using the service (i.e., number of lone parent families, by family size and age distribution of children and by the labour force [...] The researcher began the focus groups and interviews by outlining the purpose and format of the feasibility study. [...] The analysis in this report uses the same tools and techniques to measure the effect of an increase in investment of child care as would have been used to measure the effect of an increase in the construction or mining sector.