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NEW POSTINGS AVAILABLE ON THE
CHILDCARE RESOURCE AND RESEARCH UNIT’S WEBSITE
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1-Oct-04

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

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WHAT’S NEW
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 >> Making children a priority: Saskatchewan listens
by Young, Barbara & Malley, Brian
Report for the Saskatchewan Department of Community Resources
and Employment presents community responses to Saskatchewan’s
draft framework for early learning and care.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=68222

 >> OECD thematic review of ECEC: Ireland reports
by Various authors
Background report and country note for Ireland focus on access,
quality and co-ordination.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=68219

 >> Open the preschool door, close the preparation gap
by Mead, Sara
Report from the Progressive Policy Institute (US) calls for
a national commitment to universal access to quality preschool.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=68255

 >> Prekindergarten: Four selected states expanded access
by relying on schools and existing providers of early education
and care to provide services
by United States. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Report from the US Government Accountability Office examines
Georgia, New Jersey, New York and Oklahoma’s efforts to expand
their pre-K services.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=68218

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CHILD CARE IN THE NEWS
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 >> Child care workers protest [AU]
National Nine News (Australia), September 29, 2004
Child care workers have taken their long-running industrial
campaign to the steps of parliament house. About 80 protesters
gathered on Tuesday to voice their anger after waiting more than
two years for an outcome to their Industrial Relations Commission
application for a better classification structure.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=68244

 >> Rebate's no good if there is no child care [AU]
The Age, September 29, 2004
Letting John Howard loose in an election climate to design social
policies can be a hazardous exercise. The Coalition's child care
policy of an uncapped, non-means-tested 30 per cent rebate for
out-of-pocket child care expenses means nothing if there is no
child care available. Thirty per cent of nothing is nothing.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=68249

 >> Blair pledges ‘affordable’ child care option for all [GB]
Scotsman, September 28, 2004
Tony Blair has pledged to extend child care provision today to make
it an “affordable” option for all parents. He also told the Labour
Party Conference that the government would set up Sure Start children’s
centres in every community in Britain if re-elected for a third term.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=68248

 >> MP seeking national child care program. “Longest-running broken
political promise in Canada” [CA]
Winnipeg Free Press, September 28, 2004
NDP child care critic Tony Martin stopped in Winnipeg, as part of
his national child care fact finding tour; says Canada needs national
system that is universal and accountable.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=68251

 >> Child care for all is Blair's conference rallying call [GB]
Guardian, September 25, 2004
Universal access to flexible child care, including guaranteed provision
between 8am and 6pm near all Britain's schools by the end of a third
Labour term is to form the centrepiece of Tony Blair's new offer to the
nation at the Labour conference.
http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=68250


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