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The newest report in CRRU's ECEC in Canada series includes numerical data about regulated child care spaces in each province and territory in 2024, six comparative tables, and an analysis of the state of Canadian ECEC from 2019 through 2024.
The tenth annual child care fee survey from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives highlights both progress and persistent gaps as Canada approaches the agreed-upon target date of $10 a day child care by 2026.
This paper sketches the context of early learning and child care under the Canada-wide plan, and then reviews Saskatchewan’s child care history and current policyscape. It highlights both the long Saskatchewan tradition of non-profit services and the province’s key child care challenges.
In this occasional paper by Martha Friendly, the expansion of Canada's $10 a day program is examined alongside how new public funding and prioritization of non-profit child care have fuelled the rise of "fake non-profit" child care centres.
This resource can inform and empower collective early learning and child care (ELCC) system building in Canada. Its curated materials are organized to contribute to community knowledge at all levels.
This Childcare Resource and Research Unit report provides 2023 data on early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Canada, including a section on each province and territory, 21 comparative tables, and a section on the state of ECEC in Canada in mid-2024.
The municipal role in child care report by the University of Toronto’s Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) is a series of papers that examine municipalities and their ability to manage, deliver and fund child care in Canada.
Interim Space Statistics 2024 is the latest report in CRRU’s ECEC in Canada series. The interim report provides timely space statistics in response to Canada’s rapidly evolving child care landscape. It includes data about spaces in regulated child care for 2024, during the period in which the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care plan (known as CWELCC or $10 a day child care) had begun to make a significant impact.
The resources on this website - both those developed by the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) and those linked resources developed by others - focus on early childhood education and care, family policy and social issues. childcarecanada.org is intended for researchers, advocates, policy makers, service providers, students and parents.
