The Municipal Role In - CHILD CARE IMFG

Cleveland and Colley look at the history of the delivery of child care in Ontario, the changes that the CWELCC will bring to the municipal role, and the importance of municipal involvement in provincial planning. [...] policy conundrum of It is here that the dramatically and rapidly clear fit of an enhanced expanding access to As Canadian child care in a policy and role for municipalities child care are very much with a transformed early needed for the program’s provision sense is still in its infancy, the learning and child care success. [...] The national child care framework legislation assumes that “the state has the The concept of government “steering” of child care overall responsibility, and municipalities are responsible for provision, as used by the OECD in a 20-country thematic local organization [of child care] within the framework of review of early childhood education and care provision, can – 7 – The Municipal Role in Child. [...] Therefore, municipalities should colleges, the College of Early Childhood Education, the – 15 – The Municipal Role in Child Care Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Building Blocks Public Works: How Municipal Child for Child Care, and the Association of Early Childhood Care System Management and Educators of Ontario, in discussing and deciding on multi- year plans with the provincial governme. [...] of municipal child care operation, especially for the child care The specific objectives behind operating municipal child workforce, and the potential that the expansion of municipally care centres, and the centres’ characteristics, vary, but there are – 17 – The Municipal Role in Child Care overall trends.