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Excerpt: "This is not another column about wages in licensed child care. Instead, we take a step outside that inner circle to consider the people who train early childhood educators. College faculty are not a group that earns ready sympathy. Two months off in the summer! Time off at Christmas and mid-term breaks! Those breaks exist, but many college teachers spend them grading papers, preparing for the next semester, doing research to stay relevant in their field, or teaching an extra class. The job is year-round. The pay is not. The high tuition students pay for higher education frequently buys them an instructor working on contract, moving from college to college, classroom to classroom, trying to make two or three sessional placements add up to a living wage."

The Atkinson Centre promotes research on child development, and the development of early learning policy and practice that serve young children and their families.

Excerpt: "The New Year brings added benefits for the early years sector in Prince Edward Island, including updated regulations, three newly designated Early Years Centres (EYCs) and a drop in child care fees to $10-a-day. After extensive consultation, the province is pleased to support the early years sector and Island families by updating the Early Learning and Child Care Act regulations. These updates will support centres and developers who want to plan for more spaces by allowing for increased enrollment, modernized titles for staff certification levels and added pathways to obtain certification, and bring changes to prevent delays in filling vacancies at centres."

Excerpt: "The Provincial Government has released a report outlining a review of the Operating Grant Program for child care services in Newfoundland and Labrador. The report includes six opportunity areas for improving the Operating Grant Program, including: Governance; Funding and rates; Program policies, processes and requirements; Accountability; Workforce; and System enablers."

Excerpt: "The analyses and recommendations laid out in this report set forward ongoing improvements to the Operating Grant Program, and serve to support the initiatives currently underway and/or planned to further improve the child care sector in Newfoundland & Labrador. The Department of Education’s Early Learning and Child Development Division has several initiatives in-flight to improve the Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) landscape and have identified a keen willingness to invest considerable time and effort to improve the Operating Grant Program and implement these recommendations."

The New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity is a group of individuals and organizations that pursues and ensures the realization of the right to pay equity and to just conditions of work for women. To that end, the Coalition engages in communication, education, research, advocacy for the adoption and the implementation of adequate legislation, as well as public policy dialogue and development.

The Canadian Child Care Federation believes that high quality child care is everyone's responsibility, and makes for a better Canada. Well educated child care professionals are motivated to deliver quality early learning and child care with passion. Our ELCC workforce is essential to every child’s strong start.

The Early Childhood Educators Human Resources Council is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to increasing recruitment to the Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) workforce and improving retention of qualified early childhood educators by addressing identified human resource issues.

The Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario is a professional association for ECEs who advocate for respect, recognition, and appropriate wages & working conditions for all ECEs.

The Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC (CCCABC) is an inclusive, feminist, membership-based organization. They are comprised of individuals and groups including parents, grandparents, child care providers, community organizations, academics and unions. They work collectively, using research, public education and mobilization, to achieve our vision of a high-quality, affordable, accessible child care system that serves the public interest.

The Early Childhood Development Association of PEI is a provincial, non-profit organization committed to promoting and supporting quality early childhood development programs and services for their Island’s children & families. Their mission: All Island children between infancy and five (5) years of age will have access to a sustainable Provincial Early Childhood Education system that is available, affordable, and of high quality.