The state of early childhood education and care in Canada 2012 [electronic resource] / Carolyn Ferns & Martha Friendly

"Moving Childcare Forward Project (a joint initiative of the Childcare Resource and Research Unit, Centre for Work, Families and Well-Being at the University of Guelph, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Manitoba)." --T.p. verso

This report provides a snapshot of the “state of” Canadian ECEC in 2012, the year for which the most recent reliable data are available. Using data consistently collected by the Childcare Resource and Research Unit since 1992 as a base and integrating other pertinent data, this document outlines key trends, patterns and policy shifts in Canadian ECEC’s organization and governance: the demographic context, child care spaces, public funding, parent fees, integration of care and early education, ownership or auspice, Aboriginal child care, human resources and unionization.