About Us
The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (OCBCC), founded in 1981, advocates for universally accessible, high quality, not-for-profit, regulated child care in the province of Ontario.
We are a non-partisan public awareness and advocacy group with broad membership including the education, labour, student and women’s and francophone communities.
For more information on our current campaigns and for news related to child care and early learning in the province of Ontario, please visit our website at www.childcareontario.org.
Action you can take today to support Child Care
Are you having trouble finding child care? Affording child care? Do you support publicly funded child care in Ontario? Having trouble finding child care? Having trouble paying for child care? Send a message to your local MPP and MP.
With just your postal code, you can send a message to your Federal and Provincial representatives about child care at www.waitingforchildcare.ca
Tell us why Canada needs child care!
A new National campaign to tell our stories! www.weneedchildcare.ca
- Children and families in Canada have a right to access quality, affordable child care services. Yet, only 20% of young children today have access to a regulated space and, in many regions, child care fees are the second highest expense for young families.
- Early childhood educators (ECE’s) also have a right to be socially valued and properly paid for their work, yet ECE professionals earn about half as much, on average, as other college-trained workers.
- From grandparents to economists, working parents to student parents, health care professionals to social workers, early childhood educators to university professors – and so many others – everyone has a child care story.
Now is the time to add your voice to the chorus of people across Canada who say “We Need Child Care!”
