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Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care is a non-partisan public awareness and advocacy group with broad membership including the education, labour, student and womens and francophone communities. The OCBCC works in advocacy at all levels of government (federal, provincial, and municipal). We work with national partners to ensure the Federal government is involved in funding Early Learning and Care programs. At a provincial level, they work with the government and opposition parties, lobbying for policy and funding.
Child care can easily cost $60 a day – over $10,000 a year. Many families need help paying for child care so they apply for a child care subsidy but there are waiting lists for a subsidy as well. As fees go up and fewer parents can pay the full fees, the subsidy system becomes overtaxed. Child care cannot continue to depend on full fee paying parents and limited subsidies.
The OCBCC advocates for better wages and working conditions for ECEs and all child care workers and a National or Provincial Child Care System funded by the government which would benefit all those who work in child care including ECEs.
The OCBCC co-sponsors Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day annually every October. This is a day on which child care employers, boards, parents, and community members and politicians can show those who work in child care how much they are appreciated and valued. We also ask all of the municipalities in Ontario to pass a resolution declaring the day Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day throughout their municipality.
Mark your calendars! The 14th annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day will be held on Wednesday October 29th 2014.
They also have the date for next year’s 15th annual Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day which will be held on Wednesday October 28th 2015.