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Submission to the Government of Canada's Guide on Building a Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System, August 2024

The Atkinson Centre urges the Government of Canada to ‘get it right from the start’ by enforcing the principles governing the building of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Child system. Profit has no place in child care. Quality does.

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Excerpt: "Licensed school-age child care centres will be able to access new funding to help them deliver before and after school programming for Island children. To ensure Island families can continue to access affordable child care programming, the Province is investing $537,900 to support operational costs and encourage more organizations to offer school-age child care programs. The new funding will include a one-time stabilization grant for existing operators and a new licensing incentive grant for new operators."

The ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Graduate Students’ Association is excited to extend an invitation to all ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ students to participate in one or more of our standing committees.

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Excerpt: "Through the Province’s StrongerBC: Future Ready Action Plan, $12.5 million over three years is supporting provincewide recruitment and training initiatives for teachers. This year, almost $4 million is going toward recruitment and training programs, with a focus on supporting teacher retention in the sector, improving flexibility in teacher education programs, and recruiting more teachers in rural and remote communities."

Excerpt: "Alberta’s government and its education partners are continuing to modernize the education system and improve student success by developing and piloting a curriculum that will drive a passion for learning. The new draft K-6 social studies curriculum, which was developed after nine months of consultation with education partners, teachers, parents and Albertans, focuses on building students’ critical thinking skills and empowers them to be engaged citizens. Since the new draft K-6 social studies curriculum was released in April 2024, 62 school authorities and more than 1,700 teachers across 429 schools have signed up to pilot the curriculum during the 2024-25 school year."

Excerpt: "Phase 1 of the school lunch program includes every school that has elementary school grades, which adds up to more than 75,000 students and potentially more than 13 million lunches served in the coming school year. It is a pay-what-you-can program, meaning families can choose to pay the full $6.50 cost of the lunch, part of the cost or nothing. All payment information is kept confidential. Lunches will start in schools on ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ 1, 15 or 28, with ordering opening two weeks before the first lunches are served. Families will be able to choose between two lunch options every school day, with at least one vegetarian (no meat) lunch offered each day. In total, there will be 40 menu options that rotate weekly when the program starts in ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½. Each meal provides balanced nutrition and meets the standards outlined in Canada’s Food Guide and the Nova Scotia School Food and Nutrition Policy."

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Excerpt: "The Knowing Our Numbers study of the Ontario early childhood education workforce has just released its findings on the status of the sector in Northern Ontario. Workforce challenges in the North are unique. Its small population is spread across a vast geographical area that spans two time zones. Its land mass covers 90% of the province but is home to only 5.1% of the population. Low population density, high cost of food and building supplies, transportation barriers, extreme weather conditions, seasonal and shift work, and workforce shortages in other sectors all impact child care operations. Delivering child care services to Indigenous communities presents additional challenges related to historical and ongoing systemic inequities."