Child Care Coaliton of Manitoba

The Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada has launched a new campaign. Now is the time to add your voice to the chorus of people across Canada who say "We Need Child Care". Visit the campaign website to post your story. 

UNPAC (the United Nations Platform For Action - Manitoba) celebrated International Women's Day 2010 by issuing Manitoba's first-ever Gender Equality Report Card [PDF - 185 KB]. The province earned an overall grade of C+, but the childcare file earned the lower grade of C-. Visit the UNPAC website for more information.

Morden Council successfully proposed a new provincial childcare resolution at the Association of Manitoba Municipalities (AMM) Convention,  November 23-26, 2009 in Brandon.

Daycare Funding – WHEREAS the existing daycare funding and programming provided by the Province of Manitoba is no longer adequate, especially in communities where growth does not allow the use of inexpensive facilities such as closed schools for daycare use;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the AMM lobby the Province of Manitoba to meet with stakeholders to determine the needs for adequate daycare, and then initiate the programs necessary to ensure those needs are met.

In this submission to the federal government, we argue that child poverty rates are scandalously high in Canada. Child poverty is connected to family poverty, and to women’s persistent poverty. Other countries have been able to reduce children’s and women’s poverty through proactive social policies, including the provision of services to supplement market wages. Canada lags behind international best practices. Where early learning and care services are widely available and of high quality, they do a great deal to tackle women’s and children’s poverty. Canada needs to commit to developing a national early learning and childcare program, with federal funding to the development of ECEC services (supply side), and to stepping up to its international commitments to children’s rights and women’s equality.