NEW POSTINGS AVAILABLE ON THE
CHILDCARE RESOURCE AND RESEARCH UNIT’S
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15-July-05

All postings available on CRRU’s homepage
http://www.childcarecanada.org/


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WHATS NEW
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 >> The National Post and the Nanny State: Framing the child care debate in
Canada
by Thérieaut, Luc
Paper from the Canadian Council on Social Development’s Canadian Social
Welfare
Policy Conference analyses and critiques a series on child care from the
National Post.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=79653

 >> Child care workers to see increased wages, education and training
incentives
by Government of Manitoba. Department of Family Services and Housing
Press release from the Government of Manitoba announces the first stage of
their
action plan to “improve quality, affordability and accessibility of child
care”.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=79649

 >> Assessing the quality of early years learning environments
by Walsh, Glenda & Gardner, John
Article from Early Childhood Research and Practice describes a means of
evaluating early years classrooms from the perspective of the child's
experience.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=79646

 >> Effects of welfare and employment policies on young children: New
findings
on policy experiments conducted in the early 1990s
by Morris, Pamela A.; Gennetian, Lisa A. & Duncan, Greg J.
Paper from Society for Research in Child Development (US) analyses findings
on
the effects of welfare policies on children, including the increased use of
centre-based child care arrangements.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=79643

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CHILD CARE IN THE NEWS
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 >> Timing of poverty in childhood critical to later outcomes [US]
Society for Research in Child Development, 14 Jul 05
It is well known that children who live in poverty have more trouble in
school
and more problems socially than other children. Now investigators funded by
the
National Institute of Child Health and Development (US) find that while
children
who live in chronic poverty from birth through age 9 score lowest on tests
of
school readiness and social competence, poverty at any time during early
childhood is detrimental.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=79633

 >> Child poverty rates on their way up in B.C., but stats may not show
full
problem in Burnaby [CA-BC]
Burnaby Now, 13 Jul 05
New figures from Statistics Canada suggest that B.C.'s child poverty rates
are
significantly rising, but a representative from one Burnaby community group
feels that the problem is greater than the numbers suggest.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=79630

 >> Child care pay to rise [CA-MB]
Winnipeg Free Press, 13 Jul 05
Manitoba has unveiled the first steps of its new child care program,
promising
to spend over $14 million to improve wages and training programs for early
childhood educators. Child care workers are elated, noting the low wages
for
early childhood educators has meant recruiting and retaining quality staff
has
been next to impossible.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=79635

 >> Dig deep to make Sure Start just as brilliant as it can be [GB]
Guardian, 13 Jul 05
The British government has tried to create a universal child care network
without providing anything like the money needed. Its decision to fund this
network through credits instead of biting the bullet and subsidising
nurseries
needs an urgent review.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=79640

 >> Day care deal bails out parents: 'It's like a second mortgage,' dad
says of
costs [CA-AB]
Calgary Herald, 8 Jul 05
Facing a monthly child care bill of $1,400, Calgarian Ralph Kroll hopes a
new
day care agreement between the province and Ottawa will give parents a
financial
boost.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=79291


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