by Carolyn Ferns | 1 Oct 2025 | News & Press Releases, Featured, Media
Community provides Roadmap to solving issues identified in Auditor’s report. The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC) is welcoming a new report from Ontario’s Auditor-General, which calls on the Ford government to fix gaps in the early learning and child...
by Carolyn Ferns | 27 Sep 2025 | News & Press Releases, Featured
Two-day meeting launches new brand, website and Roadmap. Over the last two days, the OCBCC’s Board of Directors and Provincial Advisory Council met in Toronto to think, learn, and plan together. We appointed a new Council and elected a new Board. Under the...
by Kim Mantulak | 25 Apr 2025 | News & Press Releases, Active Campaigns, Featured
A number of members of the Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario (AECEO) and the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC) have expressed concern about a recent letter from the Minister of Education Paul Calandra to parents which operators have been...
by Carolyn Ferns | 6 Mar 2025 | News & Press Releases, Featured
The Ontario early learning and child care community is celebrating as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces extensions to the $10aDay agreements with 11 provinces including an agreement-in-principle with Ontario. Our community raised our voices about how important...
by Carolyn Ferns | 20 Nov 2024 | News & Press Releases, Parent Campaigns, Parents
Toronto – November 20th, 2024 – Ontario families with young children are launching a new group, Parents for Child Care, to add the important voices of families to child care policy debates. Parents for Child Care brings together Ontario families who...
by Carolyn Ferns | 23 Oct 2024 | News & Press Releases
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ontario child care organizations, educators and families are speaking out against a group of for-profit child care owners who are staging rolling closures in the province. “It’s clear that there is growing backlash in the Ontario...
