Work-related child care: Evidence from research
During the 2006 federal election campaign, the Conservative Party announced the Community Child Care Investment Program:
“The Conservative government will help to create new child care spaces by establishing a Community Child Care Investment Program. The program will provide assistance to employers – both businesses and non-profit institutions – when they create new child care spaces for their employees and the surrounding community. A tax credit of up to $10,000 will be granted for each child care space created. The cost is estimated at $250 million a year.
It is anticipated that the program will create about 25,000 new child care spaces each year or 125,000 spaces over five years.
…The program will be designed to ensure that small business and rural communities will be able to access it as well as larger employers and cities.” (Conservative Party platform, 2006).
As Canada moves toward this policy direction, exploring what we know about work-related child care becomes vital. This Issue File is intended to enhance knowledge and promote discussion about the issue of work-related child care in the Canadian context.
This Issue File is not intended to be an exhaustive examination of this topic; for a more comprehensive list, search the Childcare Resource and Research Unit's resource library catalogue Childcare Information Reference Collection (CIRC).
The Community Child Care Investment Program: Does the evidence support the claims? (Review)
SOURCE Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada, 4 Apr 06 / In pdf
Work-related child care centres in Canada 2001
by Barbeau, Carole
SOURCE Human Resources Development Canada Labour Program, Mar 01 / In pdf
Work-related child care centres in Canada: Private solutions to public policy
by Schmidt, Lori; Friendly, Martha & Beach, Jane
In: Canadian journal of research in early childhood education, volume 5, number 1:47-58.
Only available in print; CIRC ID # 9081 -- contact CRRU for loan information
Work-related child care in context: A study of work-related child care in Canada
by Beach, J., Friendly, M., and Schmidt, L
SOURCE Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 1993 / In pdf
Work-related child care in Canada
by Mayfield, M.
SOURCE Labour Canada, Women's Bureau, 1990
Only available in print; CIRC ID # 3454 -- contact CRRU for loan information
A national overview of child care arrangements in the workplace
SOURCE SPR Associates Inc, 1986
Only available in print; CIRC ID # 2306 -- contact CRRU for loan information
A study of work-related day care in Canada
by Beach, J. and Rothman, L ., 1984
SOURCE Status of Women Canada, Task Force on Child Care, 1984
Only available in print; CIRC ID # 981 -- contact CRRU for loan information
Tax consequences of work-related daycare arrangements: Work-related daycare arrangements -- Background paper
by Brooks, N.
SOURCE Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto, 1983
Only available in print; CIRC ID # 1956 -- contact CRRU for loan information
RECENT CANADIAN NEWS ARTICLES |
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Tories push ahead with tax breaks to business for child care [CA]
by Greenaway, Norma
SOURCE Ottawa Citizen, 13 Jun 06
Private operators seek day-care funds [CA]
SOURCE Toronto Star, 17 May 06
Tax incentives won't likely lure employers into child-care quagmire: Swift [CA]
by Bailey, Sue
SOURCE Canadian Press, 11 Apr 06 / In html
U.S. DOCUMENTS
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The strange history of employer-sponsored child care: Interested actors, uncertainty, and the transformation of law in organizational fields
by Kelly, Erin L.
In: The American Journal of Sociology, volume 109, number 3:606-649, 2003
Only available in print; CIRC ID # 18546 -- contact CRRU for loan information
The little engine that hasn't: The poor performance of employer tax credits for child care
by FitzPatrick, Christina Smith & Campbell, Nancy Duff
SOURCE National Women's Law Center, 2002
Employered-sponsored child care
by Michel, Sonya
Section in Children's Interest/Mothers' rights: The shaping of America's Child Care Policy, chapter 7:pp. 264-274, 1999.
Only available in print; CIRC ID # 13722 -- contact CRRU for loan information
Employer tax credits for child care: Asset or liability?
by Euben, Donna & Reisman, Barbara
SOURCE Child Care Action Campaign, 01 Jan 89 / Abstract available only
Full document also available in CRRU; see CIRC ID # 3531 -- contact CRRU for loan information
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