Pre-primary education: The valid investment option for EFA
Publication Date:
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Online Document Type:
Research, policy & practice
Source:
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
This paper's starting place is with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child's assumption that child care is a right and that governments have a responsibility in ensuring that this right is achieved. The paper reviews the Canadian political and social context for child care, putting this in a historical context; reviews the current child care situation; discusses the Articles of the Convention that pertain to
early learning and child care; and concludes that Canada has not yet taken the issue of children's right to early learning and child care seriously.