$10/Day Childcare Plan is Good for Everyone

For my readers who are parents of children, I don't have to tell you how difficult & expensive it is to find decent childcare in this province. For our family, it's meant that I haven't gone back to work because even with only one child, I wouldn't have earned that much more than the childcare costs. With two kids, there's no point in me working at all--my entire take-home paycheque would be gone.

The solution is to treat childcare & early childhood education just as we do elementary & secondary school: publicly fund it. The Coalition of Childcare Advocates of BC has set out a workable plan to do just that: the $10/day Childcare Plan.

About the Plan

In 2010, the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC & the Early Childhood Educators of BC released a draft plan for an Integrated System of Early Care & Learning in BC. The draft responded to BC’s implementation of full school day Kindergarten for five-year-olds & the deepening child care crisis facing BC families.

For over six months, thousands of British Columbians engaged in a dialogue about this draft plan. This dialogue helped shape & inform their finalized Community Plan for a Public System of Integrated Early Care and Learning.

The Plan, released in April 2011, offers a concrete, innovative and ambitious way forward & provides a framework for significant & lasting change.

Since its release, the Plan has been enthusiastically endorsed & supported by a growing number of individuals & organizations. These voices are calling on government to adopt & implement the Plan so that children, families, communities & our economy are served by a high quality, universal, democratic & accountable system of early care & learning.

What can you do? 

Read up on the plan. Here are five fact sheets with tons more information:

1. What the plan means for BC families
2. Economic rationale for public investment in the plan
3. By the numbers: BC children, families & childcare
4. $10/day childcare: a key to ending family poverty 
5. $10/day childcare plan is good for BC business

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