Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Ministry of Education
Making Child Care Work for Families
Ontario is looking to modernize the child care sector to ensure it remains strong and will help families experience a seamless transition to full-day kindergarten (FDK).
The province is releasing a discussion paper, Modernizing Child Care in Ontario, to begin a conversation that will help move Ontario towards a high quality, accessible and co-ordinated early learning and care system for all children. The paper was developed to encourage feedback from the sector and families to help guide the modernization of the child care sector so it works effectively with FDK, once fully implemented in 2014-15.
Modernizing child care is part of the McGuinty government's plan to create a more integrated early learning and child care system to ensure children get the best possible start.
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"We know that when parents drop their children off to child care in the morning, they need to know they are safe and getting the best care available. These discussions will build on our efforts to give our children the best possible start in school and in life, while moving towards a high quality, reliable and coordinated system of child care that works with Full-Day Kindergarten."
- Laurel Broten, Minister of Education
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Media Contacts:
Gary Wheeler
Communications Branch
416-325-2454
gary.s.wheeler@ontario.ca
Grahame Rivers
Minister’s Office
416-325-0122
grahame.rivers@ontario.ca
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