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Excerpt: "Municipal child care is not care like any other. It addresses the critical shortage of care for infants, it responds to children with exceptional needs and to families in crisis. It fills a gap that centres in the community and home care do not have the capacity to provide. In closing the Region’s centres you will be leaving many of these families with no place to go."

Excerpt: "We are shaped by the quality of our childhood. Parents understand this intuitively, and try to give their children the best possible experiences. We act on this belief as a society, too, investing in public education, health care, community infrastructure and other supports to ensure that children get the best start in life."

Excerpt: "The Best Practices Licensing Manuals for Early Learning and Child Care Centres and Homes outline licensing regulations, guidelines and best practices. This handbook supports the Best Practices Licensing Manuals by providing practical advice that can be adapted to meet the individual needs of each facility."

Excerpt: "The Manitoba government will invest $375,000 to promote healthy eating for young children by encouraging positive eating environments in child-care settings, Healthy Living and Seniors Minister Deanne Crothers and Family Services Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross announced today at the launch of the province’s new Child Care Nutrition Strategy."

Toronto First Duty model brings together kindergarten, child care and parenting supports into a single program.

Excerpt: "The grants help parents identify and respond to important issues in their school community, including bullying, student nutrition, literacy and math. The grants also support parents to overcome barriers they may face to participate in their children's education, such as language and transportation."

Craig Alexander, describes the economic benefits of investing in the next generation of workers.

Excerpt: "Four communities now have access to increased supports for young children with the official opening of four new early years centres. The expansion means there is now an early years centre in every school board in the province."

Excerpt: "The Manitoba government will build a new child-care facility at the King Edward Community School, resulting in 40 new high-quality, licensed spaces for families living and working in northwest Winnipeg, Family Services Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross and Education and Advanced Learning Minister James Allum announced today."

Presented by Kerry McCuaig, Atkinson Centre Fellow In Early Childhood Policy; Zeenat Janmohamed, Visiting Scholar; and Romona Gananathan, Ph.D. Candidate, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø, September 8, 2015, EECERA Annual Conference: Innovation, Experimentation & Adventure in Early Childhood.

Presented by Janette Pelletier, Ph.D., and Carl Corter, Ph.D., Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø, September 8, 2015, EECERA Annual Conference: Innovation, Experimentation & Adventure in Early Childhood.

Posted on The Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy.

Excerpt: "As Canadian political leaders embark on the longest election campaign in our history they are finding that child care is an issue resonating with voters. Among the unexpected interested are 160 scientists and a coalition of charitable foundations. Earlier this summer the groups issued separate public statements, each urging policy makers to invest in high quality programs for preschoolers."