Exit this survey
The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC) in collaboration with members of the Common Table for Childhood Development and Care Ontario are reaching out to the early learning and child care sector. We would like to recognize and thank CUPE Ontario and Better Child Care Ontario for their financial support of this research project.

List of Participating Organizations: Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Family Support Institute Ontario, Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario, Home Child Care Association, Early Childhood Resource Teacher Network of Ontario, Best Start Resource Centre - Health Nexus.

There has never been a greater sense of financial and planning uncertainty for our sector.

To get a full picture of our sector we hope all programs and agencies will complete the survey. Our survey is meant to be a first step in monitoring and supporting the early learning and child care sector.

Our goal is to:

1. Collect responses from a wide range of services and programs, including child care, family support, and health promotion
2. Compile and make public survey findings to help influence/guide future government decisions concerning support to our sectors
3. To help support individual programs that are experiencing financial pressures or that may cut existing levels of service.

Question Title

* Please fill in your contact information:

Question Title

* What programs / services does your Organization provide?

Question Title

* Your Program/Service:

1. How many children or families are currently served by your existing program? (In numbers)

Question Title

* 2. How many children in each age group do you serve? (In numbers):

Question Title

* 3. Is your program located in a school?

Question Title

* 4. How many 4 and 5 years old children does your program serve?

Question Title

* Impacts of Full-Day Learning:

1. Please describe any current or potential future impact on your programming, resulting from the recent roll-out of the provincial initiative on Early Learning Program in Ontario. (e.g. impact on schools with linkages to programming, partnerships, shift in resources, impact on service delivery, etc.)

Question Title

* 2. Please identify which of the following apply to your program:

Question Title

* 3. What are the costs / estimated costs of making the changes listed below? (In numbers)

Question Title

* 4. Describe the impact that full-day learning might have on your program?
(Can include increases/decreases in number of children served and the age group)

Question Title

* Funding Pressures:

1. Do you have a waiting list for subsidized child care?

Question Title

* 2. Has your program received an increase in funding to cover inflation?

Question Title

* 3. What impact has the following pressures had on your programs?

Question Title

* Staffing:

1. How many staff do you employ?

Question Title

* 2. Average salary for Registered ECE's in your program ($/hr):

Question Title

* 3. Average percentage cost of benefits:

Question Title

* 4. How many home child care providers are affiliated with your Organization?

Question Title

* 5. Are any of the staff working in your programs members of a union?

Question Title

* 6. How many staff positions could be lost with the implementation of full-day learning?

Question Title

* 7. How many affiliated home child care providers do you anticipate that would be eliminated with the implementation of full day learning?

Question Title

* 8. What are you plans to retain staff during the transition?

Question Title

* 9. What are your plans to continue to contract with home child care providers during transition period?

Question Title

* Children with Special Needs:

1. How many children with special needs does your program / agency serve?

Question Title

* 2. What are parents concerns regarding the implementation of full-day learning for children with special needs?

Question Title

* 3. What supports do you feel children will need to participate in full-day early learning programs?

Question Title

* Your Program's Plans for the Future:

1. What ideas has your program / agency discussed to mitigate the impact of financial pressures during the implementation / establishment of full day learning?

Question Title

* 2. If you are facing financial pressure which may affect your level of service to families, which groups have your communicated with:

Question Title

* 3. Are you aware of any programs that closed, cut programs or reduced their level of service in the past 6 months? If so, what program?

Thank you for your participation.

-----------------------------------------------
List of Participating Organizations:

Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, Family Support Institute Ontario, Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario, Home Child Care Association, Early Childhood Resource Teacher Network of Ontario, Best Start Resource Centre - Health Nexus.

T