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Meet Karma M. Chukdong, BEd, MA, MEd, Director, Teaching Excellence and Learning at First Nations Technical Institute.

Excerpt: "The government will give back to families and seniors nearly $1.7 billion over five years. To do so, it is planning on the following: payment of a more generous family allowance for families with two or more children beginning in 2019; freeze on the additional contribution for subsidized childcare as of 2019."

Dr. Anne Jordan invites PhD and EdD students to participate in the #ThesisInMotion project, an OISE initiative to help students get their dissertation done.

Excerpt: "“We are very excited to be able to allocate more licensed child care centre spaces,” Hargrave said. “Today’s announcement brings our total allocation to nearly 1,200 new spaces across the province this year. Access to affordable, high-quality child care is important to families across Saskatchewan and we are very pleased to make child care accessible for more families in Prince Albert.”"

Excerpt: "The provincial government has signed a three-year bilat-eral agreement under the Early Learning and Child Care federal framework The provincial and federal funding will result in the creation of NB Early Learning Centres through which families will access affordable quality child care Grants to help pay for the cost of providing vquality child care will be provided through EECD directly to the NB Early Learning Centres There was a phased-in approach for the designation initiative, Phase 1 began in Q4 2017-2018 with 55 facilities being initially targeted, and subsequently approved, for designation."

Presentation at the Conference Board of Canada Education and Skills Symposium 2018, Toronto, November 28, 2018.
Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy.

Excerpt: "Canada has about 2.4-million children age 5 and younger. If we were to exclude those under 1 year old, because their parents are potentially covered by federal parental leave, that leaves about 1.9- million preschoolers. For those 1.9 million preschoolers we have about 800,000 preschool child care spaces or enough capacity for about 40% of these children."

Excerpt: "The B.C. government is moving forward with 53 prototype projects around the province to deliver child care that will cost families a maximum of $200 per month per child.

The prototype sites are the next major step in government’s 10-year ChildCare BC plan and will model what high-quality, affordable, universal child care may look like for B.C. families. The prototypes are being funded through an investment of $60 million under the Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) Agreement with the Government of Canada. In all, parents of about 2,500 children will benefit from the prototype projects."

Excerpt: "This project will promote the evidence-based Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development through a variety of digitals tools and e-learning products, to all Canadians, including families and services providers working directly with parents and children. These innovative tools and products will help to create a better understanding of the science of early childhood development and improve the quality of early childhood practices."

Posted on UNICEF Canada.

Excerpt: "The report measures the rights and well-being of children in rich countries over the past 18 years. UNICEF compares countries so they can learn and do better. The 2018 UNICEF Report Card 15 is focused on equality in education."

Special thanks to from UNICEF Canada went to Kerry McCuaig and Dr. Emis Akbari, Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, University of Toronto, for producing data and analysis for early child education in Canada.

Presentation at the Lawson Foundation Outdoor Play and Early Learning Policy Research Symposium, October 24-26, 2018.
Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy, and Jane Bertrand, Adjunct Faculty OISE, and Program Director, Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation, and developed with the support of Kelley Prendergast.