Child Care Now NL is a coalition including ABCs and ECEs, YWCA St. John’s, the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour, the Jimmy Pratt Foundation and Early Childhood Educators.
Our Key Activities
- Promote a vision of early childhood education and care (ECEC) based on child care as a right of every child
- Monitor and respond to policy developments
- Raise public awareness of child care
- Support provincial and territorial initiatives in line with our policy aims
- Work with federal opposition parties to keep child care on the public agenda
- Respond to the growing threat of commercial child care chains
What we believe
- Child care is a cornerstone of progressive policy for children
and families. - Children and families have the right to access a child care
system supported by public funds. - Canadians deserve a comprehensive and affordable child care system that is high quality, inclusive, and non-profit.
- Families deserve a range of child care services for young and school age children.
- Those working in child care must have decent work, wages and working conditions.