The RisingOaks Early Learning Board of Directors has affirmed support for universally accessible, high quality, non-profit, regulated child care that is affordable for families and includes professional pay and decent work for educators.
As part of this mandate, we'll share information on advocacy campaigns that are working towards that goal.
RisingOaks' Government Relations
Current Issues
- Bill C-35 | An Act Respecting Early Learning and Child Care in Canada
- 2024 CWELCC Funding Formula (Ontario)
- Targeted Growth Strategy for Child Care (Region of Waterloo)
Meeting Summaries
- 2023-03-23 Meeting | Topics: Immigration supports for ECEs, Dual Credit Program, CWELCC Implementation and Expansion
Submissions to Government
- Ontario Budget Submission, 2024-01
- Response to 2024 Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) Funding Formula Discussion Paper
- Pre-budget Submission 2022
- Signatory on Open Letter to Premier Ford: Urgent Action Needed on Child Care Safety and Viability
- Feedback on Regulatory Posting under CCEYA 2021
- Pre-budget Submission 2021
Parent Advocacy: Lend your Voice
- Kitchener-Conestoga, MPP Mike Harris
- Kitchener-Centre, MPP Aislinn Clancy
- Kitchener South Hespeler, MPP Jess Dixon
- Cambridge, MPP Brian Riddell
- Waterloo, MPP Catherine Fife
Advocacy Associations and Campaigns
Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario (AECEO)
https://www.aeceo.ca/
The AECEO is the professional association for ECEs and its primary purpose is to advocate for respect, recognition and appropriate wages and working conditions for all ECEs.
Current projects
- Road Map to Universal Child Care
- Open Letter to Premier Ford: Urgent Action Needed on Child Care Safety and Viability
- Stop the Child Care Changes
- Proposed regulatory changes under the Child Care & Early Years Act will erode quality within the sector.
- Voices from emergency child care and next steps for advocacy
- Transforming Work in Ontario's Early Years and Child Care Sector
- Decent Work Charter
Child Care Now
Child Care Now is dedicated to advocating for a publicly funded, inclusive, quality, non-profit child care system. Our organization is non-profit, membership-based and regionally representative.
Current projects
- Pandemic Response
- An Analysis of the Multilateral Early Learning and Child Care Framework and the Early Learning and Child Care Bilateral Agreements
- The report describes and analyzes each provincial and territorial Action Plan, and details initiatives proposed in the creation of spaces, affordability, working conditions of ECEs, auspice, and inclusion/equity/diversity.
Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC)
http://www.childcareontario.org/
Ontario’s central advocacy group for a universal early childhood education and care system. We want: low fees or no fees for parents; decent work and pay for educators; and an expansion of public and non-profit services.
Formed in 1981, the OCBCC is a member organization comprising local child care centres, national and provincial groups and individuals from all across Ontario. Our members are educators, parents, grandparents, centre directors and trade unionists.
Current projects
- Road Map to Universal Child Care
- Open Letter to Premier Ford: Urgent Action Needed on Child Care Safety and Viability
- A Long-Term Plan for Ontario Child Care in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Fact Sheet - overview of proposed regulatory changes under CCEYA