Parents – Understanding Quality in Child Care & EarlyONs in Manitoulin-Sudbury

Quality in Care

Mantoulin-Sudbury’s early years and child care sector has a rich history of striving for and providing high quality programs and supports to families and children. As child care evolves and transforms, so does the system, programs and services needed to support quality and inclusion. We want to gain a better understanding of what quality and inclusion mean, look like, and feel like for you.

The development of a Quality Framework and a deeper understanding of inclusion will be collaborative and relies on your insights, engagement and experiences. In your role as a parent/caregiver, we encourage you to take a few minutes to complete this survey.

The first few sets of questions will be used to help us understand who is completing the survey and who we might be missing. All data from this survey is stored by a third-party consulting team and is kept confidential and will only be used to enhance our understanding of quality. You will not be asked to share any identifying information.

Once surveys are returned, we will be doing a draw and you could win one of 30 gift cards ($50 gift card to Amazon). You will be asked at the end of the survey to share your name and email address - your email address will only be used to contact you if you win the draw.

Thank you in advance.

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* 1. How long has your child been in care / attending EarlyONs?

Less than 1 year

1-2 years

2-3 years

3-4 years

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* 2. Which type of child care is your child(ren) engaged in? (select all that apply):

Licensed Centre-Based Child Care

Licensed Home Child Care

Francophone Child Care Operators

Indigenous Child Care Operator

My child participates in EarlyON programs

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* 3. What does a good quality child care space look like/feel like for you? Please describe quality in a sentence or two or using 3-4 words (i.e., clean, friendly staff, lots of toys).

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* 4. What do you think your role is in supporting quality in your child’s current child care? (please select all that apply)

Sharing my child’s needs with my child care provider

Sharing my observations on what could enhance my child care’s quality

Engaging in conversations of quality with the child care provider

Asking my child care how they assess their quality

Ask about enhancements the child care centre is implementing to increase quality

Other (please specify)

The Ministry of Education has identified four foundational conditions that are important for children to grow and flourish: Belonging, Well-Being, Engagement, and Expression. These foundations, or ways of being, are a vision for all children’s future potential and a view of what they should experience each and every day.

Definitions:

Expression: every child is a capable communicator who expresses himself or herself in many ways.

Engagement: every child is an active and engaged learner who explores the world with body, mind and senses.

Belonging: every child has a sense of belonging when she or he is connected to others and contributes to their world.

Well-being: every child is developing a sense of self, health and well-being.

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* 5. To what extent does your child care demonstrate these expectations?

Has embedded this dimension very well

I don’t see this dimension embedded

Clear

i We adjusted the number you entered based on the slider’s scale.

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* 6. Have you ever been asked and/or involved in your child(ren)s child care programming and services? If yes, what did this look like?

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* 7. What role do you think child care providers have in sharing with parents/caregivers about the quality of their centre? (please select all that apply)

A quality assessment of each centre should be shared on their website

Centres should freely speak about what good quality looks like and feels like with parents/caregivers

Centres should regularly post the results/reflections of their quality assessments for parents/caregivers to read

Other (please specify)

Parents – Understanding Quality in Child Care & EarlyONs in Manitoulin-Sudbury

Quality in Care

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* 1. How long has your child been in care / attending EarlyONs?

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* 2. Which type of child care is your child(ren) engaged in? (select all that apply):

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* 3. What does a good quality child care space look like/feel like for you? Please describe quality in a sentence or two or using 3-4 words (i.e., clean, friendly staff, lots of toys).

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* 4. What do you think your role is in supporting quality in your child’s current child care? (please select all that apply)

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* 5. To what extent does your child care demonstrate these expectations?

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* 6. Have you ever been asked and/or involved in your child(ren)s child care programming and services? If yes, what did this look like?

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* 7. What role do you think child care providers have in sharing with parents/caregivers about the quality of their centre? (please select all that apply)

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* 8. Have you experienced or witnessed barriers faced by Indigenous, Francophone, or racialized parents/caregivers in your child care space?