Good child care advances health equity.
While the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care initiative introduced in 2021 has improved certain components of child care in this country, this policy brief argues that there continues to be disparities across provinces and territories.
If we are going to build and maintain a child-care system that works for every child, the child-care workforce, and parents and guardians, much more needs to be done around the conditions of work for child-care workers, the quantity of spaces, the quality of spaces and their costs.
We all benefit from creating a bright future for young children.