How are provinces and territories investing in early learning and child care?
Click on the links to the left of this screen to find out more about early learning and child care programs, services and supports across the country. How can the public track what governments are doing with respect to early childhood development programs and services? As part of this agreement, governments1 have agreed to report annually on their progress in improving access to affordable, quality early learning and child care programs and services beginning in November 2004. Specifically, governments will report on: • Descriptive and expenditure information on all early learning and child care programs and services; • Indicators of availability, such as number of spaces in early learning and child care settings broken down by age of children and type of setting; • Indicators of affordability, such as number of children receiving subsidies, income and social eligibility for fee subsidies, and maximum subsidy by age of child; and • Indicators of quality, such as training requirements,
