In this brief, Rob Buschmann and Jennifer Fischer-Summers provide an update on the latest fees for licensed early learning and care in Edmonton. They also show that 2020 continues an ongoing trend of early learning and care fees outpacing inflation in the city since 2014. Finally, they discuss what fees in Edmonton might look like in 2021.

David Macdonald and Martha Friendly recently released Sounding the Alarm: COVID-19’s impact on Canada’s precarious child care sector, part of a series of reports published annually since 2014 by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The report offers timely information about full-time, regulated child care for children 5 and under, based on a survey of Canadian cities conducted between September and November of 2020. This year's survey focused on tracking child care fees and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child care sector.

This 2020 Annual Report highlights ECELC work over the past year and presents the Council’s general strategy for accessible, affordable, high quality child care. Hyperlinks within the document provide more detailed information, we encourage you to forward to your contacts.

In Quality Early Learning and Care Depends on Qualified Early Childhood Educators, Marie Lesoway summarizes the arguments, evidence, and key recommendations from two recent and extensive reports.

In Regulations Can Support Quality Early Learning and Child Care, Marie Lesoway highlights some of the critical elements from the Beach report, including issues in defining and implementing measures to support quality.

ECELC members and CUP Research Associate Rob Buschmann and Research Assistant Jennifer Fischer-Summers recently co-authored a 1-page brief with researchers at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy on child care subsidy changes.

The Child Care Act and Regulation provides the legislative basis for early learning and care in Alberta. The Act has undergone review by the Ministry of Children’s Services, and a new Act was tabled in the Legislature in November 2020. This report is a comprehensive review of how jurisdictions can, and do, support quality in early learning and care through a combination of regulation and other policy vehicles and mechanisms.

More Work to be Done: An Analysis of Child Care Subsidies in Alberta Summary. This is a summary paper of “More Work to Be Done: An Analysis of Child Care Subsidies in Alberta” discussion paper.

More Work to Be Done: An Analysis of Child Care Subsidies in Alberta. This discussion paper is about particular concerns with the recent changes to subsidies.

Seeing the need to communicate about its work with an ever widening audience, the Edmonton Council for Early Learning and Care unveiled its new website today. Visit this new site at www.ecelc.ca.

This brief describes three reasons that early learning and care should be a core part of any Edmonton-specific COVID-19 recovery plan.

This brief highlights particular questions surrounding the affordability of early learning and care in day homes during and after the COVID-19 crisis.

This brief is about particular concerns with temporary changes to the rules and regulations for family day homes and agencies.

The position paper makes suggestions for the review of the Child Care Licensing Act and Regulation.

This brief highlight particular concerns with the financial sustainability of family day homes during and after the COVID crisis. 

This brief is about the financial sustainability of early learning and care centres during and after the COVID crisis. 

The Edmonton Council for Early Learning and Care releases a suite of reports calling for more information and increased attention to culture in child care.