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NEW POSTINGS AVAILABLE ON THE
CHILDCARE RESOURCE AND RESEARCH UNIT'S WEBSITE
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30-Jun-04
All postings available on CRRU's homepage
http://www.childcarecanada.org/
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WHAT'S NEW
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>> Keep the child care promises
by Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada
Post-election response from the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada
calls
on the new government to keep its national child care promise to Canada's
children and families.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=60215&AA_EX_Session=7a8f3adda0ec517ca12d1a6011e4e31b
>> Social determinants of health: Canadian perspectives
by Raphael, Dennis (Editor)
Edited collection from U of T Press investigates eleven social factors that
affect the health of Canadians; includes ECEC as an important social
determinant
of health.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=60213
>> Early childhood education: How important are the cost-savings to the
school
system?
by Belfield, Clive R.
Report from the Center for Early Care and Education provides a cost-benefit
analysis of ECEC in New York State; finds ECEC returns half its cost in
later
savings to school systems.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=60212
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CHILD CARE IN THE NEWS
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>> Minority can work, Martin: Parties will come together to boost health,
child
care systems [CA]
Canadian Press, June 30, 2004
Paul Martin says he will proceed with election pledge to create a national
child
care program.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=60246
>> Voters give tiller a healthy tug [CA]
Toronto Star, June 30, 2004
An election that could have produced a jarring course change pushed the
ship of
state in a mildly progressive direction. Voters have signaled that they
don't
want to give up the prospect of national early childhood education and care
in
exchange for a $2,000 per child tax deduction.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=60220
>> Big divisions loom over childcare [NZ]
New Zealand Herald, June 27, 2004
Funding changes announced in New Zealand's budget offer 20 hours a week of
free
care in non-profit centres; government also ties centre funding to staff
qualifications.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=60217
>> Labour to help the under-5s [GB]
Express on Sunday, June 27, 2004
Britain's Labour government is set to promise more help for pre-school
children,
if re-elected, following a government report on social exclusion.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=60219
>> We can do better than close day cares [CA?BC]
Times-Colonist, June 16, 2004
Letter to the editor criticizes Camosun College for plans to close its
campus
child care.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=60218
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