NEW PUBLICATION -- This paper addresses child care for what is widely agreed to as a  “hard-to-serve” parent population: parents working non-standard hours. The paper argues why a shift to more public responsibility for creating non-standard hours child care services is critical if these services

New Blog Post - International Women’s Day 2022 is Canada's first on which building a universal child care system is officially on the agenda. This year, we have much to congratulate ourselves for, so we need to take a lot of credit and celebrate.

This paper explores the key roles municipalities and other local government entities can play in enhancing public management associated with creating child care services and concentrates on how municipalities can facilitate, support and assist creation of child care services. 

As Canada moves to fulfill the promises made in 2021, this paper explores elements of building capacity in the non-profit sector to play a significant role in expanding child care services across the country.

This first paper in a series of eight identifies ways in which child care services are created in Canada and discusses the shifts needed to increase child care supply.

This report presents data from a follow-up survey of licensed child care centres and regulated family child care providers across Canada about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

As the holiday season approaches, we take this opportunity to review 2021’s child care developments, highlight some of CRRU’s main activities, and send all our friends and colleagues and all child care supporters everywhere our best wishes for good health, peace, prosperity and quality child care

This (re-issued) paper summarizes what is known about the child care workforce in Canada, the implications of this for regulated childcare, and identifies  some considerations and strategies to address the ongoing workforce issues and improve the overall state of ECEC.