BURNABY—CUPE hopes to help shape B.C.’s future by endorsing a plan designed to help improve early care and learning in B.C.

CUPE recently endorsed the “Community Plan for a Public System of Integrated Early Care and Learning”.  The plan is a road map toward a comprehensive public early learning and care system in British Columbia and was created by the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC (CCCABC) and the Early Childhood Educators of BC (ECEBC). 

The plan has already been endorsed by a wide variet

MAPLE RIDGE—CUPE BC’s child care working group was put on alert last week with the news that a Calgary-based private corporation has purchased five daycare centres in B.C.

VANCOUVER – Child care workers, parents, and activists were at the Vancouver Public Library last night to talk about how to improve child care, as part of a cross country tour organized by the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

A panel of academics, community activists and child care advocates brought facts and figures along with a lot of passion to the call for Canada’s governments to move to a publicly funded and delivered system of early chi

VANCOUVER – Child care activists and experts will share information and plan for action at the B.C. stop on a cross-country tour promoting public delivery of child care through school boards or local governments.

Across Canada, parents struggle to find good child care in a patchwork of services that is privatized, fragmented and expensive. And the tour comes to B.C.

VANCOUVER—The verdict has long been in – a public system blending early childhood education and child care (ECEC) delivers high quality programs for children and families. What would that system look like? What can we do to push governments to act?

Canada’s private approach to child care has produced a patchwork of unplanned programs that vary in quality affordability and availability.

VANCOUVER—Child care is in crisis in Canada. Children and their families need affordable, accessible, and reliable child care. We visited workers at three locations of Collingwood Neighbourhood House (Collingwood, Norquay, and Graham Bruce) to learn firsthand about the important work they do.

OTTAWA—Last week UNICEF published a new study rating Canada’s provision of early childhood education and care (ECEC) at the very bottom of 25 developed countries. In an open letter to Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff and Jack Layton, a group of prominent activists, academics, professionals and political leaders ask why.

BURNABY—Just over a year ago, CUPE National president Paul Moist joined MP Olivia Chow and child care activists at Brittania Child Care Centre to call for measures to protect against big box child care corporations.

In particular CUPE flagged concerns that the world’s largest multinational child care corporation, ABC Learning, had bought up over 1,000 American child care centres and appeared to have its sights on Canada.