OTTAWA—Parents in some cities could be in line to save tens-of-thousands of dollars annually under a proposed national child care plan, according to a new city-by-city savings analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Children and youth
Options for the Creation of an Affordable Licensed Child Care Program in Manitoba provides important data and analysis to create equity in child care fees, which is one pragmatic first step towards the creation of a quality, universal, public child care program in Manitoba and Canada.
In spite of the Manitoba child care program having maximum per diem rates for licensed care that are among the lowest in the country, 24 per cent of families using child care in Manitoba are paying more than 10 per cent of their after-tax/disposable family income on licensed care.
This report provides the third installment in a series of papers that track the gap between Indigenous children and other children in Canada, using the after-tax Low-Income Measure (LIM-AT). That snapshot provides a disturbing picture of child poverty in Canada: one where First Nations children are far and away the most marginalized and economically disadvantaged. Tracking Indigenous child poverty and non-Indigenous child poverty trends between Census 2006 and Census 2016, it’s clear that these differences have not markedly changed over that 10-year period.
Every year since 2014, the CCPA has surveyed child care fees in order to assess which Canadian cities are the most and least affordable for parents. This year’s survey does that and more: a special set of questions was added to understand some of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on regulated child care.
Chaque année depuis 2014, nous sondons les garderies et les centres de la petite enfance (CPE) situés dans des villes canadiennes afin de déter miner dans quelles villes les services de garde sont le plus abordables et le moins abordables pour les parents. Cette année, notre sondage accomplit cela et plus encore. Une série de questions a été ajoutée à notre question naire afin de comprendre certains des effets de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur les services de garde réglementés.
VANCOUVER — Like in many Canadian cities, full-time licensed child care in BC is struggling under the financial burden of COVID-19—registering a dramatic drop in enrolment while revenue-generating parent fees remain unaffordably high, a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) shows.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a report today that provides evidence that without urgent investment we risk losing the child care spaces we have. Sounding the Alarm: COVID-19’s impact on Canada’s precarious child care sector, by David Macdonald and Martha Friendly, finds that in Halifax, there were at least 23% fewer children in child care in the fall of 2020 compared to February of that year.
Dans la plupart des villes canadiennes, les services de garde réglementés offrant des services à temps plein peinent sous le poids financier de la COVID-19 et ils sont aux prises avec une baisse dramatique de leurs inscriptions. Les frais de garde, qui sont leur principale source de revenus, demeurent quant à eux inabordables, selon une nouvelle étude publiée par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA).
Full-time licensed child care in most Canadian cities is struggling under the financial burden of COVID-19—registering a dramatic drop in enrolment while revenue-generating parent fees remain unaffordably high, according to a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Full-time licensed child care in most Canadian cities is struggling under the financial burden of COVID-19—registering a dramatic drop in enrolment while for profit centre parent fees remain unaffordably high, according to a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).