Ontario Child Care Advocates to Release Figures on Workers Needed to Meet Demand for $10-A-Day Child Care, as Part of National Day of Action.

Families, Early Childhood Educators, child care workers, and child care advocates will be at Queen’s Park on Wednesday November 30th, as part of a National Day of Action for Child Care Now: Better Pay, Better Quality, Better Access.

Ontario child care advocates will hold a press conference to release figures on the number of child care workers and ECEs needed to meet estimated demand for $10-a-day child care, discuss the child care workforce shortage and call for an Early Years and Child Care Workforce Commission and a salary scale.

Date: Wednesday November 30th, 2022

Time and location:

• Press conference, 9:00 a.m., Queen’s Park, media studio.
• Rally, 10:00 a.m., Queen’s Park, South Lawn.

Speakers Include:

• Carolyn Ferns, Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care
• Rachel Vickerson, Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario
• Joy Adeola, Registered Early Childhood Educator
• MPP Bhutila Karpoche, Parkdale - High Park

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For more information, please contact:
Carolyn Ferns,
Policy Coordinator, Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care
[email protected]
647-218-1275

Rachel Vickerson
Executive Director, Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario
[email protected]
647-393-8952