Governments need to co-operate to prioritize access to high-quality child care for low-income families, and sustain not-for-profit care centres with well-paid educators.
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For vulnerable and marginalized groups, access to early learning and child care remains uncertain. Inclusive access must become a top priority to achieve affordable care for all families.
Ontario’s flat fee for child care should be replaced by an income-tested fee reflecting family incomes.
The new learning and child care agreement requires a paradigm shift as we begin to consider early learning and child care as a public service.
A renewed model for oversight and support of all home child-care providers would ensure that our society’s youngest and most vulnerable people have access to safe and higher-quality home child care.
Canada could emerge from this pandemic with a better quality, expanded and more efficient child-care system nationwide while making an investment with returns in the future.
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Assistant Researcher, Perlman Lab, Ontario Institute for the Studies of Education, University of Toronto
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Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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RBC Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Management, University of Toronto
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Ph.D. Student, Developmental Psychology and Education, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Early Childhood: Diversity and Transitions, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Assistant Professor, Child and Youth Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University
