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This session explores different SNR models, the challenges and barriers faced, and key lessons learned from the field.

Newly released research from Knowing Our Numbers has revealed that a percentage of directors are sending children with disabilities home, denying them admission, or de-enlisting them from programs due to staffing shortages. This webinar will highlight regional strategies to support the inclusion of children with disabilities and foster more equitable access to early learning and care.

This is a Better Together Initiative. Better Together is a group of Ontario Service System Managers collaborating for capacity and innovation in early childhood education.

Gordon Cleveland, an economist and Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Management at the University of Toronto Scarborough, has dedicated over 30 years to researching the economics of early childhood education, with a focus on policy design. A widely published expert, he joined us to share his perspective on Ontario's new funding formula.

Panel discussing Bill C-35, An Act respecting early learning and child care in Canada.

Dr. Akbari speaks to how high-quality licensed child care helps children develop vital skills during their first five years, which marks a critical developmental period in a child’s life. Early childhood educators (ECEs) provide children with the foundation they need to grow into future leaders. ECEs use their extensive knowledge of learning and child development to create high-quality learning opportunities through play and exploration.

The work that Early Learning & Childcare (ELCC) workers do, in educating and nurturing the next generation—one of our most precious economic resources—matters.

Olivia Chow, lawyer Stephen Shyrman and the Atkinson Centre held a virtual roundtable.

Learn more in the Early Childhood Education Report.

Dr. Emis Akbari, discusses the development of the Early Childhood Education Report Benchmarks.

Learn more in the Early Childhood Education Report.

Neil Price, discusses how Canada still has a long way to go in equitable access to early learning.

Voice of Children. Tyler, age 3, Ontario.

Voice of Children. Penelope, age 5, Kindergarten, Ontario.