Child care operators, educators and parents distance themselves from group of for-profit child care owners’ campaign against $10-a-day child care

Child Care, Solidarity

TORONTO – Ontario child care organizations, educators and families are speaking out against a group of for-profit child care owners who are staging rolling closures in the province. “It’s clear that there is growing backlash in the Ontario child care community against the tactics of this Alberta-backed group of for-profit child care owners this week,”…

“An unnecessary risk”: Over 140 organizations send Open Letter to Ontario Education Minister Todd Smith opposing his attempt to open up more of Ontario’s child care system to for-profit provision

Child Care, Education, Solidarity

TORONTO – Over 140 Ontario organizations – including small and large child care programs from across Ontario, churches, francophone associations, labour unions, post-secondary and research institutions – have come together to send an Open Letter to Ontario Education Minister Todd Smith today in response to his recent letter to federal Minister Jenna Sudds asking her…

With possible strike looming, day care workers deliver solidarity petition but management nowhere to be found

Child Care, Solidarity

TORONTO – On Friday, as roughly 70 child care workers ran inventive, world-expanding programs, the President of CUPE 2484 attempted to hand deliver a message from workers and parents to the head office of Ideal Child Services Group. Management, though, was nowhere to be found, so Jess Tomas slid the petition and reams of signatures…

In the face of hollowed out services and plummeting morale, over 90% of workers at Kinark Child and Family Services sign petition demanding change

Child Care, Solidarity

PETERBOROUGH, ON – When young people in Peterborough and Northumberland County are in crisis, they turn to Kinark Child and Family Services. Lately, they haven’t ended up in treatment but on growing waitlists with little prospect of getting help. That issue, along with high staff turnover and increasing burnout, was highlighted today for the Board…

Twenty child protection agencies Ontario are warehousing young people in motels, hotels, and short-term rentals

Child Care, Solidarity

New survey conducted by Canadian Union of Public Employees finds two-thirds of agencies relying on unlicensed homes for vulnerable children and youth   Toronto – Tonight, on the tenth annual Children and Youth in Care Day, dozens of young people in the care of the province’s Children’s Aid Society agencies will be going to sleep…

Children Deserve a Home, Not a Hotel

The children and youth who come into contact with the child protection system are some of the most vulnerable in Ontario. Many have experienced trauma or are struggling with mental health challenges. They deserve every resource and opportunity to thrive. But tonight, and every night, far too many are going to sleep not in licensed…