Financial Pressures in the Early Learning and Child Care Sector
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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.
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Please fill in your contact information:
What programs / services does your Organization provide?
Your Program/Service:

1. How many children or families are currently served by your existing program? (In numbers)
2. How many children in each age group do you serve? (In numbers):
3. Is your program located in a school?
4. How many 4 and 5 years old children does your program serve?
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.)
2. Please identify which of the following apply to your program:
3. What are the costs / estimated costs of making the changes listed below? (In numbers)
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)
Funding Pressures:

1. Do you have a waiting list for subsidized child care?
2. Has your program received an increase in funding to cover inflation?
3. What impact has the following pressures had on your programs?
Staffing:

1. How many staff do you employ?
2. Average salary for Registered ECE's in your program ($/hr):
3. Average percentage cost of benefits:
4. How many home child care providers are affiliated with your Organization?
5. Are any of the staff working in your programs members of a union?
6. How many staff positions could be lost with the implementation of full-day learning?
7. How many affiliated home child care providers do you anticipate that would be eliminated with the implementation of full day learning?
8. What are you plans to retain staff during the transition?
9. What are your plans to continue to contract with home child care providers during transition period?
Children with Special Needs:

1. How many children with special needs does your program / agency serve?
2. What are parents concerns regarding the implementation of full-day learning for children with special needs?
3. What supports do you feel children will need to participate in full-day early learning programs?
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?
2. If you are facing financial pressure which may affect your level of service to families, which groups have your communicated with:
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.

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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.