CEP has been working with many other unions to bring attention to the challenges facing young parents when they need to access child care. The Rethink Child Care campaign is calling for better access to public health care in all provinces.
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 (ECE¹s) 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.
See the new web site www.rethinkchildcare.ca<http://www.rethinkchildcare.ca>
Watch the new video: http://rethinkchildcare.ca/video/