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TITLE School Age Child Care - change in regulations will erode quality
date June 2010
   
TITLE Media Release – 2010 BC Budget Ignores Economic Benefits of Child Care
date March 2010
   
TITLE Together we made a difference at U Vic!!
date November 2009
   
TITLE Media Release: What is behind BC Government’s new stand on Big Box child care?
date November 2009
   
TITLE Media Release re: comments made by the Minister of Education
date September 2009
   
TITLE CCCABC BC Budget Update Response
date September 2009
   
TITLE Questions and Answers prepared for BC Provincial Budget
date September 2009
   
TITLE Government Makes Cuts to Child Care; Parent Fees Will Increase – Again....
date August 2009
   
TITLE The election didn’t change much...
date August 2009
   
TITLE Child Care is a Women's Issue: International Women's Day 2009
date March 2009
   
TITLE Child care crisis not a priority for this government
(Reaction to provincial budget)
date February 2009
   
TITLE You can't have Early Learning without Care: CCCABC's response to the Early Childhood Learning Agency Consultation Paper, “Expanding Early Learning in British Columbia for Children Aged 3-5”
date July 2008
   
TITLE A Costing and Accountability Model for a BC Child Care System
date November 2007
   
TITLE The rEvolution of Community Controlled Child Care in BC
date November 2007
   
TITLE Finally – BC Remembers School Age Child Care!
date September 2007
   
TITLE The Ministry of Education Wants A Dialogue on their “Draft Early Learning Framework”
date May 2007
   
TITLE Equity for BC’s Working Families and Their Children
date March 2007
  It's time for equity for working families and their pre-school children. We call on the province to immediately adopt a policy that treats licensed child care the same as other early learning programs...
   
TITLE Minister Reid - Resign! Minister Taylor - Restore the Cuts! Premier Campbell - Build a Child Care System!
date January 2007
  On January 5, 2007, Minister Linda Reid, BC's Minister of State for Child Care announced her government's latest attack on working families in BC. In spite of over $2 billion in projected provincial surpluses, Minister Reid announced $35 - $40 million in cuts to BC's already under funded and fragile child care services...
   
TITLE Minister Reid - It's Time to Resign!  /  [backgrounder]
date January 2007
  The Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC is taking the unprecedented step of calling on Linda Reid, BC's Minister of State for Child Care to resign from her Cabinet position.
   
TITLE $127 Million and Beyond: How BC should invest child care money
date December 2006
  As BC approaches the end of federal child care transfer payments under the Agreement on Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC), the BC child care situation is going from bad to worse.
   
TITLE Where are our daycare spaces?
date September 2006
  The Federal government has promised $250 million per year for 5 years starting in 2007, for an Initiative that will provide employers and non-profit organizations with incentives valued at $10,000 towards the capital expenditures for each child care space that they ‘create’. What is Linda Reid, BC’s Minister of State for Child Care saying to her federal counterparts about their proposed Child Care Space Initiative? When will she let BC families and communities know how she is representing their interests?
   
TITLE Coalition Launches Child Care Community Governance Project
date July 2006
  With funding from the VanCity Community Foundation and in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative, BC Office, the CCCABC is hard at work on a project that will move us from this great vision of a community-based system to concrete policy options for how to get it done.
   
TITLE $455 million for child care is at risk but Premier Campbell is still silent
date April 2006
   
TITLE BC Families not fooled by Harper’s Child Care Double Speak
date April 2006
  “Families and child care providers are not fooled by Stephen Harper’s claim that child care is one of his government’s top 5 priorities,” says Susan Harney, Chair of the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC. “The facts are that his government’s real priority is to cut child care.”
   
TITLE The Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC's position on the role of family child care in a non-profit child care system
date March 2006
  The Coalition advocates for a comprehensive child care system that provides families with a range of quality child care options - including centre and family based care, full time and part time care, etc. We see quality, licensed family child care as a key component of this system.
   
TITLE Still Defending Daycare!
date March 2006
  The Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC is calling on our members, partners and supporters to DEFEND DAYCARE. Join us in standing up to the federal government's plan to dismantle years of progress and the provincial government's inaction and silence.
   
TITLE Child Care and Unions: Taking the next step!
date March 2006
  In November 2003, the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC formally agreed to actively promote unionization as part of our strategy for achieving a publicly funded, not-for-profit, high quality, accessible, affordable child care system. Our position is based on research that clearly demonstrates the relationship between unionization and quality child care.
   
TITLE Most Canadians Vote FOR a Child Care System!
date January 2006
  Stephen Harper’s Conservatives won a small minority government but most Canadians voted for a quality child care system that meets the needs of children, families and communities.
   
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