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Northvvestern Ontario Day Care Nevvs December 185 NWO DAY CARE NEWS is a forum for the sharing of information between day care groups throughout Northwestern Ontario, as wel I as providing information about what's happening on the federal and provincial scenes - both in terms of governmental pol icy/legislation and with advocacy groups' activities. We hope that this newsletter wil I combat some of the isolation that day care workers and advocat'es fee I and that through sharing resources, ideas and action plans we can develop strategies to ensure the growth and strengthening of qua I ity day care in our region. We wi I I welcome submissions to this newsletter from every day care committee/centre throughout NWO. Please send articles, newscl ippings, letters, etc. to Box 144, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7C 4V5. From these visits, the need for a strong, regional organization has been expressed by many people. The networks that are evolving need continued work and the strategies of collective action must be matured .. Therefore, we are applying for funds for a second phase of the project (from January to June 1986) through which we plan to conduct a comprehensive survey of day care in Northwestern Ontario (requested by several communities) and organize a forum or forums in the spring to bring together day care parents, workers, local decision makers and interested citizens. In the second phase, our project worker wi I I also travel to other communities not previously visited. Please let us know if you would I ike her to visit your community. "TIME FOR CHANGE" - ONTARIO COALITION FOR BETTER DAY CARE, CONFERENCE AND LOBBY, OCTOBER 26-28 REGIONAL DAY CARE PROJECT During the past five months, the Regional Day Care Committee has, through a Secretary of State grant, carried out a project to analyze the situation of day care in NWO; to initiate a regional network of al I persons concerned with day care; to provide information from provincial and national day care organizations to NWO Groups; and to put forward a NWO perspective to governments and to provincial/national day care advocacy associations. Our part-time project worker has travel led to Kenora, Fort Frances, Ati kokan, Geraldton and Terrace Bay meeting with day care parents, workers and other interested citizens encouraging the development of active parent~' groups, and learning local issues and needs. There were three representatives from Thunder Bay among the 200 in attendance at the annual conference of the Ontario Coalition for Better Day Care. The theme of the conference - "Time for Change" - was appropriate on two fronts. The Coal it ion was reorganized and expanded to incorporate local coalitions and individuals, as wel I as provincial organizations. A Counci I made up of representatives from various provincial organizations, local groups and individuals wi I I meet three times each year, and an Executive elected from the Counci I wi I I meet a minimum of 10 times per year. Holly Rupert from Red Lake was elected as one of the four individual representatives, and the Thunder Bay . Advocates for Qua I ity Chi Id Care wi 11 be represented on the Coal it ion Counci I as wel I. The first meeting of the Counci I wi I I be he Id January 25th in Toronto. �In I ight of the new provincial government and our hopes for new directions, "Time for Change" was indeed an appropriate theme for the lobby which fol lowed the conference. The mood in the room throughout the three hour lobby was one of excitement and anticipation. Although the Superior Room at Queen's Park was fi I led to capacity (reportedly 300 people), the lobby was highly organized and profess i ona I. In fact, Bob Rae congratu I ated the Coalition for putting on "one of the best organized lobbies he had ever been at". Three Tories were in attendance forthe ful I hour al lotted to them. Although Phi I Gi I I ies (Brantford) attempted to articulate Tory pol icy in response to our questions, he did so with difficulty and embarrassment (his two col leagues were conspicuously silent). The eleven NOP members in attendance expressed agreement with the Coal it ion throughout questioning and agreed that day care should receive greater emphasis. ·The last but most eagerly anticipated caucus - the Liberals - had twenty members in attendance, inc I ud i ng John Sweeney, Minister of Community and Social Services, and Ian Scott, Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Women's Issues. Sweeney reiterated at the outset his government's commitment to day care, assuring those present that day care is a high priority for the Peterson g?vernment. While acknowledging the problems that exist, little else was offered. Sweeney expressed concern that if they tried to renegotiate Canada Assistance Plan (CAP) financing for day care, the provincial government might have to renegotiate al I financing under the plan, including welfare. (CAP is the only federal-provincial program that is st i I I open-ended - that is, the federal government's contribution to it is I imited only by the amount the prov i nee spends.) The pol icy to withdraw the indirect subsidy is a result of CAP (welfare) funding for day care. Sweeney stated that withdrawal of the indirect subsidy wi I I take effect at the end of 1986, rather than 1985, as previously planned. When questioned about the possible closure of day care centres due to this pol icy, Sweeney indicated that he would deal with each situation on an individual basis. While the politicians were impressed by the lobby, it was evident that we must keep up the pressure on a I I fronts. Back to the Conference! Saturday was spent in large part at a series of informative workshops. One workshop, "Alternative Federal Funding Mechanisms", looked at the present system of funding and the alternative proposed by the Canadian Day Care Advocacy Association (copies avai I able from CDCAA, 323 Chapel Street, Ottawa K1N 7Z2). This proposal integrates principles, services and the role each level of government would play regarding funding, and would be extremely valuable to anyone preparing a submission on ch i Id ca re. Another related workshop, "Task Force Update" was orig i na I I y to have focused on the findings of the Day Care Task Force chaired by Dr. Katie Cooke and set up under the former Liberal government. However, as the final report was not yet avai Iable, the focus shifted to preparations for the next Task Force on Chi Id Care. It was emphasized that we should be ready for it when it came. We were encouraged to lobby to have hearings scheduled in more than one city in each province and, if unable to attend the hearings, to make written submissions both as groups and individuals. (Given that the establishment of the Par I iamentary Task Force on Child Care was forma I I y announced a month after the conference, this workshop was extremely helpful.) Those of us attending the conference and lobby came away energized and eager to continue our efforts to attain better day care. �INDIRECT SUBSIDY For NWO children to be provided qua I ity day care in 1986, the fees charged to parents must be affordable. Of course, day care must become a universal service but being realistic we know this is a long-term goal. Right now, we must ensure that we do not lose the day care centres we presently have in NWO. This means that the provincial government must be persuaded to continue the "indirect subsidy" to municipal day care and/or provide a direct grant to al I non-profit day care centres. In the past several years, because of the provincial directive regarding the elimination of indirect subsidy, day care fees in NWO have increased annually (or more often). And every time an increase occurs, a number of fami I ies find that they have to withdraw their children. The fees are just too high. In fact, because of the high fees, there are a number of NWO day care centres that today have unfi I led spaces! And many children who need day care are not served, but rather are placed in less expensive, unsupervised, unregulated arrangements, Because of short-sighted funding policies, young children are being denied the benefits of a qua I ity day care program. Unless provincial policies change, this situation wi I I only worsen. The current fees charged in NWO centres range from $13-18. Without the indirect subsidy the fees wi I I jump to $25-35 per day. Up to 75% of the municipal and nonprofit day care centres in NWO could be forced to close. Individually and collectively, NWO day care advocates have been raising the issue of indirect subsidy/direct grant with provincial politicians. This issue was an important feature of the Coal it ion lobby of al I provincial politicians. Members of the NWO Regional Day Care Committee have discussed this issue with the Hon. John Sweeney, Minister of Community and Social Services, and with the Hon. Ian Scott, Minister Responsible for Women's Issues. Thunder Bay Advocates for Qua I ity Chi Id Care have met with Jim Foulds, MPP - Port Arthur, and Marathon Day Care has communicated with Gi Iles Pouliot, MPP - Lake Nipigon. We al I must continue to impress on our political representatives the urgency of providing qua I ity, affordable day care. The effect of our lobbies has had only I imited results. At the Coal it ion lobby, the Hon. John Sweeney announced that the provincial pol icy re the elimination of indirect subsidy was postponed unti I December 31, 1986. PARLI.A.MENTARY TASK FORCE The federal government has just announced the establishment of the Par I iamentary Task Force on Chi Id Care. This Task Force is extremely important in that its work wil I point the direction for day care pol icy for the years ahead. In a sense, this Task Force is our last chance to influence the development of adequate day care pol icy. The Task Force intends to hold public consultations and we have written urging the Task Force to hold pub I ic hearings in Northwestern Ontario, and to provide travel subsidies for district travel to these hearings. We' 11 keep you posted. It is vital that submissions from individuals, as wel I as groups, be made. If you are concerned about the future of day care, please plan to make a statement to the Task Force (and please let us know of your wi I I i ngness to make a presentation). We have sent a package of resource materJal - background information, recommendations for federal action, Task Force terms of reference - to al I the day care centres in NWO. Contact the supervisor of the day care centre in your community for more information or write us at Box 144, Thunder Bay. OVER 50% OF MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN UNDER 5 ARE IN THE PAID LABOUR FORCE. YET THERE IS A CHILDCARE SPACE FOR LESS THAN 1 IN 10 CHILDREN NEEDING ONE. �POST CARD CAMPAIGN The Sioux Lookout Parents Group are organizing a "Post Card Campaign" and are seeking the support of other day care centres and advocacy groups in making fhe campaign effective. The post card (the exact wording of which is st i I I to be f i na I i zed) would indicate support for provincially-funded day care and be signed by parents and other concerned citizens and sent to MPPs. If the politicians receive many post cards, an impact w i I I be made. Plan now to support this important project. Let the Sioux Lookout Parents Group know how many post cards you wi I I need, and whether or not you can share the cost of printing them. For more information, contact Janet Wilkinson, Sioux Lookout Parents Group, c/o Norah Love Children's Centre, Box 177, Sioux Lookout, Ontario. THE SCHOOL HOUSE PLAY CARE CENTRE OF LAKEHEAD The School House Play Centre opened its doors on September 3, 1985. Our centre is unique in that it is the first workplace day care centre in the Thunder Bay area. Although it was established to accommodate chi Idren of Lakehead Board of Education employees, space is also available for other children in the community. Our priority is qua I ity day care. The home-I ike atmosphere of the centre provides a welcoming environment to both children and adults, in which the individual chi Id's needs are met through a wide range of creative, stimulating and nurturing activities and programs. It is important to us that parents know their children are being we I I-cared for by qua I ified staff who truly enjoy working with the children. We hope that our centre is only the first of many workplace day care centres in Thunder Bay. Although enrollment continues to increase, spaces are sti II avai Iable. For further information, please feel free to contact Ke I I y Job I in at 344-8719. DAYCARE UPDATE: RED LAKE The Women's Information Group, an ad hoc group in Red Lake conc~rned with the broad spectrum of issues affecting women, targeted day care as one of the issues needing a higher profile during the November municipal election. The group produced a pamphlet, ~ith assistance from Secretary of State, which explained the funding crisis affecting day care services in our community. The pamphlets were distributed at two al I-candidates' meetings, at which specific questions about day care were put to the candidates. Before election day, Jennifer McKibbon, a candidate supportive of day care, and myself met with the workers at the Red Lake Day Care Centre. The workers have concerns about their ch ron i ca I I y Iow wages and a pay scale which does not fairly reflect employees' years of service at the centre. The workers are encouraged to know that as a member-at large of the Ontario Coal it ion for Better Day Care Counc i I I can take their concerns beyond the community to a supportive organization committed to improved child care services. In the new year, I plan to meet with the director of the Balmertown Day Care Centre. - Ho I I y Rupert CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE INCLUDE Ruth We I Is, Margaret Phi I I i ps, Ke I I y J ob I i n , J a net Wi I k i nson , Ho I I y Ru pert and Fiona Karlstedt. We hope you wi 11 consider contributing to the next issue. Day Care in the News: Red Lake, Dryden, Terrace B a y - - - - - ~ �THE TIMES-NEWS, Tuesday. July 30, 1985 Daycare - a definite need By~~~ TERRACE BAY- Day care In Ten-ON Bay. • ~~~ ....:..i-;ely ~ ~ Mafda,Y has ~111d• Project Mayday con- ducted• •f toO ,nkllnlaollbeCQlllfflWII• t=:. ~:-~:: ~£en:!..~.. TIie majority eonc1.IJ,elr children would ...,.,11 rrom some type of :=.:I=~ ro, chlldral. belon and pA!t·llllle daycare ~ full-tlmt oiler ICboal. =-r~..r ~ Ille)' bad ID Immediate _,i o1 tu11-ume c1aycare. WedllldaY, July 17; • meetlnl of tateretted parents wu held to 4iaCUSI 1111 ....ita of Ille WUCommit• carried oul IUImonth. tees were formed to in- ~=· I'/: :!'::.:="of dlnl for daycare. Day~care concerns v~ihceg_.AV(~t "2~.f:..!.in_g w,.t town council Uncertainty continues 'to be 1985 user fee portion increase in the caldi-word for the future. of. the daily fee from $10.50 to $15 the Dryden Day.Care Centre, per day and stat.es, "it appears with pending financial losses 'likely that further increaaea will cauaing continued concern. follow in 1986." At a special day-care infonnaIn 1984, Dryden consumers tion meeting in the Dryden paid $10.50 a day, with the remunicipal office SepL 23, 15 in- maining $14 CXIYel'ed 50 per cent tereated ciiliens heard Dryden by the federal government, 30 Mayor Tommy Jones aay that .per cent by .the proviru:e and 20 although counciJ will continue • per cent by tha municipality. malting representations to the This year, the per diem cost is Minister of Community and &. $22.80, with the maximum user cial Services in an endeavor to fee effective SepL 1, 1985 at $15. keep day-care centres from cl0&: The shortfall of $7.80 is covered ing, the Town of Dryden may in- as follows: $6.24 by the province aeaae its daily day-care rates in and $1.56 by the municipality. the 1986 bw:lgeL ~ t a who are fully subsiMayor Jones also said the , the rate is $1 per day, with town would review its current the ·remaining 80-20 split cosubsidy eligibility criteria. ven,d by the province and muniln January of this year, the cipality respectively. federal government announced it Children from the unorga~ atop ita day<are subsidy 'F:ed. ~~es who~ deemed startmg ·Jan.'!t:J.986, 'Mayor ubemgm need are·lt>O]lerc:eat. Jones eaid he recently learned funded by the province; and if not that date bas been 'changed to in need, the same 80-20 split ap, SepL 1, 1986. In response to the plies. federal cutbacks, the province in• Of the average of 32 children tends to only fund those day-care currently using the centre, 12 to clienta who qualify for full or par- 15 are non-residents. tia1 subsidies through a special Mayor Jones eaid, "We believe n-18 tesL day care is an asset to the Town Diane Conway, program 8\1• of _Dryden and the users . . . if pervisor with the miniatry in we could increase the numbers in Kenon., told parents at the meet,. day care, we could then decrease ing that t.be Liberal government the per diem rate." • is proceeding as originally planHe said there ~ no~ ellO\lgh ned with the eubsidy. cuts. She chitdren in need at the Dryden eaid she is trying to help centres centreandeaidtheneedaeligibil• find methoda of lowering the per ity criteria would be looked into diem rate. for parents to .avoid after Mr. Green .suggested-a reany future closwea. view. "TheminisuyhaamadeacomMa. Conway eaid if occupancy mitment to ensure no .day-care waa incniased to 90pei: cent, the centres close as a result of the per diem rate could be reduced. policy," aha aaid, adding mllllt The miniaby ia trying to.achieve middleclaaa parents with two aratenearS18forevsyday-care children would .qualify' for IOIR8 eiinb'e in the diatriet_ eubsidy. Coun. Susan Welle auggest.ed Calvin Green, a program eu- there could be room for a lot of perviaor with the mim.try in COllt reductions in meala and Th~Bay,aaidthefd!li~ ~ bu~ Paul Hea,n, chier time <to&ptember ifnqt ~ ~tant. am '70 ·per-emit ae waa allotted b y " 1 M ~ ~ $160,000~)Ciiit is ·mr ·becauseoftherecppiz.eddiflicuJ. stall; with food costs at less than ties, 10 per cent. A wrilten' brief dilmouted'by Mr: Heayn also said IIOme council at_the_meeting notes the (c-,,,,,,.,J . . -- - - - - "'Tbe greates& danger of 11111." said Ms. Smllll. "is :''i:at~:.:r. the likelihood that mlttee Mrs. Cuol Quesne11e will dlalr tlle- daycare wlll become lhettoized. Aller all, wby lWld r~commtttee. would a pareu~ who c,ould ..='1~\!.111~ who also attended the r.~-::u~ r.ie~..r~:: informed Ille nanny Instead? Thus IP""'P daycare wUI be 115ed only by Ille less af• c\~~ of such ser· nuent members of our •~Pl'sald that Ille ,oclety, such u single meetinll- ~:::::.= 11'."7'0: elded • JocaUGIL ... In spl.. ol Ille obllacles presented by 1overn• ment'1 tncWference, enlllusiam -•iled at Ille meetinl, ~"!"~~ ld!:"i:::!uJ:: ing of a concert and uk· Ing variolll commualty and national IP""'PI for financtaJ autstance were toued arouad amon1 worklnl -,,.,., " ohe U.O preaent. :;v.=i~p:;: 11.t\._ of 1h11 c,ould be I - for• daycare alte 111 llmdlllC.-...- Ille detertanUOII of Ille inch- llliDI existing standards of quallly In factllllel, sucb u ,_,,. :.'n1a"";'tc"=t ,ri;: llalanceofllletab. ~-=u"~ ~..:.i ~-~~- :.: -ydeara ID•111,LonaJac lbree ,..,... also service lllat Ille children Ml. Smftll •. . - - oul that - - ol tbll therefore Imperative wtlhdnnl of flmdlDI. tllecaolollllCboetvicel that"bDUI aovemmentJ to usera hu riJm to u and individuals reall<e much u S35 per day In 1111 Importance of making some clllea. Thi• Is affordable daycare beyond the rtnanclal available to au parents, reacll of DIOOI middle and reaardless of income low-income families. status or geographical iseu1eec[ In September, • a>m· mualty ineelln1 will be lleld at which Ume Ille committees' (lndlnp will bit dlsc:Ussed and further action taken. tColUinu,d fmm ptJK~ I) . further staff-child ratio reducoperational changes were made tion. since July of this year in an Fouowing a discussion of attempt to reduce per diem rosts. severaf measures suggested by They include only allowing chit• council and the ministry to tackle dren two servings at lunch, cur• the day-care fundlhg problems, tailment of staff snacking pri• Mayor Jones said, "Hopefully, vileges, including soup lihd sand- some of the things we've talked wiches once weekly on the menu about will have some effect." and advising staff thilt they will He also suggested that conhave to pay for their lwiches at cerned residents should write to some point in time. the minister. Coun. George Boisaonneault expressed concern that, "If you • . In an interview aft.er the meethave two or three kid& the cost is ing, Ms. Corner said'" she was pleased the government has exastronomical." tended the date of the subsidizaCoun. Cary Case suggested tion cuts to Sept. 1, 1986 and said that if the current· eight,.t.o-one the town definitely has to look at staJ17child ratio for 24 to five- the ceilings on the eligibility year-olds was reduced to 10 to· needs test. noting that none of one, cost savings would be more the three residents tested who substantial than through any she thought would qualify for food-oriented measures. subsidies met the necessary criteria. However, Heather Corner, bryden day-care suj,ervisor, Although licensed to serve 45 said, "There goes your quality children a day. the current aver• age 1s only 32 and Ms. Covner day care." adding that it would he ju~t on<" ~tf'p from there to a F-aici t hnt 1f C'ounril again in- creases the rates in 1986, more clients could be lost: She said the re-examinution of the needs test "might make a difference" but that while she hopes the government will revrr.;,, its decision, "I don't r<•allv think they will." • �Need for adequate day care is ·e1nphasized Before attending a conference sponsored by the Ontario Coalition for Beller Day Care, the major advocacy group for child care in the province, I hadn't recoj?nized the urgency or the day care issue. More mothers or young ,hildren now work for a wage or salary than stay home full-time, and their numbers are increasing. Al the same lime, ii is women who bear U1c primary responsibility for the care and upbringing or their children. These two facts mean there is .pressing social need ror adequate child care when parents are not available lo provide it. It's not only women with school-age children who have entered the labor force. The participation rate or women with children under six has increased by 271 percent in the past 15 years. A majority of women with children under three now have jobs outside the home as well, according lo the Canadian Day Care Advocacy Association <CDCAA), a non-profit, voluntary organization based in Ottawa. The royal commissio~ report by Judge Rosalie Abella, published last fall, observes U1al, "By Canadian law both parents have a duty to care for their children, but by custom this responsibility has consitenlly fallen to the mother." Studies cited in the report show that more than 90 percent of all day care arrangements are made by mothers. It is the inability to find suitable day care which makes it impossible for many women to seek paid employment. A Canadian labor force survey Speaking of Children By HOLLY IUPIII has shown that about 121,000 working mothers had lo leave or refuse a job in 1980 because of inadequate child care arrangements. To complete lhe statistical picture, approximately 2,000,000 Canadian children need some form of child care; more than half of those children are under six. Yet in 1983, there were Jess than 140,000 licensed day care spaces in the whole country. . The current day care system is, at best, a hodge podge of municipally-run and privale I] -. . .. ~ licensed centres. family di!)' care . <homes which care for up to five children), and informal care arrangements. Babysillers, relatives and lhc neighbor down lhe street make up the "informal" system, which provides care for about 85 per cent of children. Some of these arrangments are excellent; some are far from adequate. The concern with informal care, according to most day care advocates, is that it's not licensed and therefore not well regulated; THE REGIONAL, NOVEMBER 13, 1985 • In many ways that in turn, means quality care is difficult lo ensure. • Uay care services are not distributed evenly across the country. Parents in rural areas nia,· not have access lo licensed chiid care. a situation which is compounded by region_al disparities. According to lhe CUCAA, the number of spaces per 1,000 cluldrcn under six varies from a low of nine in Newfoundland to a high of 84 in Manitoba. The key limiting factor for most families is the prohibitive cost of day care. Typically, parents must pay $2.000-5,000 per year for a licensed day care space. For children under two years, the cost can be considerably higher, as much as Si ,000 per year. The current svstem of fundine e 0\ for day care involves all levels of government. As the most critical and complex area of the day care issue, I'll examine it separately in my next column. It is fair to say that day care is fast becoming.a commodity for the rich <who can afford full fees) and a welfare service for those with tow incomes <who are helped by a subsidy>; it's middleclass parents who are hurt. the most by the present day care systems. Day care critics cling to myth that children belong at home with their mother. But the reality or middle-class Canadian Ille in the '80s is that both &pOUSeS need to work. If one parent of those working couples stayed home, about half of those working couples stayed home, about half or those Canadian families would fall below the poverty line. The neglect of a comprehensive day care policy in Canada shows that as a society, we haven't sorted out our values with respect to children and parenting. As the CDCAA told the Abella commission, "How can we not afford to support the modern family in carrying out Its most fundamental role of all - child rearing? ... As a people, Canadians must respond." THE REGIONAL, DECEMBER 4, 1985 13 Quality day care more costly tha_n average family can afford l::d. Note: This column appeared in U1e Nov. Z'1 ls&ue of lhe Regional, bowevrr ,everal columns of type were in lhe wrong ord~r. II is being rerun here for claril,l'.. People concerned about child care services in Canada all agree on one point: high quality care costs more than most parents can reasonably afford to pay. Yet most parents can- not look to the government for financial assistance. Under the existing system, day care is considered a welfare service, which means subsidy is only available to those who earn very litUe income. Seventy-five million in federal dollars are spent each year on day care through the Canada Assistance Pian ICAP). • ' Under the plan, the federal government pays 50 percent of child care costs for families "in need", and the province either pays the rest or splits the rema i II de r with the municipality. The subsidy is adjusted according to how much help the family is judged lo need. The !lroblem with CAP is that ii helps only a small number of families. In Ontario, only 30 percent of children in licensed care receive a subsidy; the rest must pay full fees, according to the Ontario Coalition for Better Daycare, a Toronto-based· lobbying organization. . When CAP was introduced in 1966 to provide social assistance and welfare services for a selected segment of Canadians, ii was never intended to become the only federal funding scheme for child c;ire services. Yet thal is the situation which has evolved. Many families look to the child care lax deduction of up to t2.ooo per child allowed on federal income tax as a means of defraying the cost of child care. Although the federal government clrectively transfers about ~!05 million lo parents U1rough this deduction, about half of this benefit goes to families with incomes of $~5.000 or more. Middle income families are hurt the most by the existing systme. They are not helped by CAP or the tax exemption, runding schemes which do nothing to build a comprehensive day care system in Canada. As one veteran day care advocate said, . of sPeakmg . Ch .Id I re n 6'° tllo)U \ RUPERT ··IJ;,v cart' is subsidized by 1i1r J..!ople involved with ii. Either the children subsidize the ser\'icc by accepting low quality cart', or the parents subsidize the service . b) accepting low salaries." With no government fundmg flowing direclly to the centres, they remain fi1iancially fragile. If there is a drop in enrolment one month, a centre goes into debt, or raises its fees, which in turn can lead lo a further drop in enrolment. At the same time, under the current system, any increase in stair salaries can only be rcllecled in increascd fees to parents. Thedaycarefieldhas become a female )Ob ghetto wiLh chronically low wages. In Ontario, lhc a,·erage annual earnings for day care worker is $13,88~. and O\'cr GO percent leave their work after one to lhr~-e years, according lo research commissioned for the federal Task Force on Child Care. Advocacy groups like the Ontario coalition and the Canadian Day Care Advocacy Association ICDCAA l see direct funding as the only way lo build a day care system which truly meets lhe developmental needs of children. Direct funding would stabilize the funds needed to de\'elop high quality programs. It would allow children from a c r o s s I h e socioeconomic spectrum to have access to a range of child care services. Access to care would no longer by hmiled by a family's ability to pay or meet financial criteria. The CDCAA also l>Oints out that direct funding would allow those who provide child care lo earn adequate wages. There are concrete lunding proposals on the table. • The CDCAA has called for a federal childcare financing act to provide federal and provincial funding for day care on a nonrestrictive, universal basis. The act would include funding lo existing licensed spaces based on a formula of $5 per day to every licensed or supervised centre or caregiver for ever ap- pro\'ed space. As a short term measure, the grant would stabilize lhe existing day care system. bringing us a step closer to universal funding without increasing fees. As Judith Martin, founding chairperson of CDCAA said, "The neglect of a comprehensive family support and day care policy in Canada intrudes severely on the privacy or the family by limiting and shaping the choices parents can make. Why are working families expected to deal with child care as an individual problem?" More than a year aflec its election, the Mulroney ·government has not de\'oted a single new penny to day care. But as any parent in the system can tell you, the day care crisis in not going to go away. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northwestern Ontario Day Care News, December 1985 Subject The topic of the resource Organizations Description An account of the resource Northwestern Ontario Day Care News December 1985. Includes information about the Regional Day Care Project; Time For Change Conference, Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care; Indirect Subsidy; Parliamentary Task Force; Post Card Campaign; School House Play Care Centre of Lakehead and Red Lake Day Care Centre. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context nwodcn_85dec Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Canada - Ontario - Thunder Bay Canada - Ontario - Red Lake https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/cf1b7501cce75b26d538b59167cfb45a.pdf bac6b7efc67335fe41bcec4fcf608c16 PDF Text Text , ':1f J .,.: .• N·orthwestern Ontario Day Care April 86 News 1 NWO DAY CARE NEWS is a forum for the sharing of information between day care groups throughout Northwestern Ontario, as wel I as providing information about what's happening on the federal and provincial scenes - both in terms of governmental policy/ legislation and wi~h advocacy groups' activities. We hope that this newsletter wi I I combat some of the isolation that day care workers and advocates fee I and that through sharing resources, ideas and action plans we can develop strategies to ensure the growth and strengthening of qua I ity day care in our region. We welcome submissions to this newsletter from every day care centre and committee throughout NWO. Please send art i c Ies, newsc I i pp i ngs, I etters, etc. to Box 144, Thunder Bay P7C 4V5. This news update wi I I be brief as we are enclosing the Coal it ion newsletter which provides a wealth of information about day care issues you wil I be interested in. INDIRECT SUBSIDY Be sure to read pp.3-5 of the Coal it ion newsletter which indicates optimism that the province wi I I make some necessary changes. As you wil I see, Gerry Duda, Senior Pol icy Coordinator, COMSOC "agreed with Coal it ion representatives that it did not make sense for the province to be enforcing its instructions to municipal day care centres to increase their fees to ful I per diem costs -at the same time the government was conducting a ful I-scale review of funding alternatives". Duda informed Sue-Colley "that indeed there seems to have been an oversight and the Regional Directors were meeting with the Policy Branch ... to discuss a new pol icy which would relax the rule requiring municipal centres to raise their fees to ful I cost by the end of 1986". While this is welcome news, we cannot relax. It appears that this relaxed policy/directive has not filtered down because we keep hearing that district COMSOC officials are continuing to pressure municipalities to raise fees and to take cost-cutting measures that wi I I erode the qua I ity of care provided by day care centres (see Thunder Bay and Longlac articles). It would be a tragedy if any of our NWO centres were forced to close or abandon qua I ity service before new (and hopefully satisfactory) policies were effected. We must increase our advocacy to ensure the stabi I ity of our existing centres. NWO DAY CARE PROJECT Our funding request to Secretary of State to carry out our regional project from January - June 1986 got caught in the federal government "freeze", and our grant was rejected because "the Government has acted on the basis of its fundamental commitment to reducing the nat i ona I debt". We fa i I to see how the $12,000 we were denied wi I I substantially reduce the federal deficit ... however, the reality is we didn't get it, so our plans to conduct a comprehensive survey of day care in NWO and to convene regional forums have had to be postponed. We have re-app·I ied for the grant for the period June - December 1986, thus hopefully the forums can be organized for early fal I. VIDEO PROJECT The Coal it ion has received a grant from the Ontario Women's Directorate for the Chi Id Care Video Project. Videotapes • wi I I be produced in 10 communities across the province, i I lustrating chi Id care concerns of local parents and day care groups. Marathon and Sioux Lookout have been chosen to represent NWO day care programs and issues. �I2 I COMMUN ITY NE\~S REPORTS TO READ The Post Card campaign organized by the SIOUX LOOKOUT PARENTS' GROUP is wel I underway, with hundreds of post cards from across Northwestern Ontario being sent to Premier David Peterson urging a universally accessible, publicly funded, high qua I ity day care system. If you need more post cards for your community, contact Janet Wi I ki nson, Box 177, Sioux Lookout or the NWO Regional Day Care Committee, Box 144, Thunder Bay P7C 4V5. Be sure to get a copy of the Report of the Task Force on Chi Id Care (the Katie Cooke report). This report can be obtained for $9.95 from Canada Government Publishing Centre, Supply & Services Canada, Ottawa KIA OS9. We al I need to be familiar with this report and be prepared to advocate for a number of its key recommendations. Some excel lent research studies have also been published (separately) by the Task Force. These are avai Iable free from the Communications Unit, Status of Women Canada, 10th Floor, 151 Sparks Street, Ottawa. TERRACE BAY's Town Counci I approved a request by the Day Care Group and have appointed a Day Care Advisory Committee composed of Town Counci I and parent representatives. This committee wil I further investigate ways and means to develop a day care centre in Terrace Bay. We are pleased to know that a Parents' Group has been formed in GERALDTON. The BIG TROUT LAKE Women's Group have placed day care at the top of their priorities. They have conducted a needs survey and are working toward the establishment of a day care centre in their community. We're happy to report that THUNDER BAY City Counci I is taking real leadership by urging the province to continue the 'indirect subsidy'. This and other positive actions arose from a recent meeting of .the City's Community Services Committee. With day care children and their parents packing Counci I Chambers, city politicians gave a sympathetic hearing to the briefs submitted by the Thunder Bay Advocates for Quality Chi Id Care, NWO Regional Day Care Committee, CUPE and individual parents. The issue arose because City Administration had put forward a report which included a number of recommended • changes that would seriously affect the quality of Thunder Bay's municipal day care and jeopardize the existence of lhe centres. Thankfully, City Counci I deferred al I these recommendations and wi I I press the province- for appropriate government support. (If you would like a copy of the brief we made to the City let us know.) SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON CHILD CARE Although the dates for the hearings iQ Thunder Bay and Dryden have not yet been· confirmed, it appears I ikely that they wil I be ~eld during the week of May I~ . to May 16. Please plan to attend these hearings. Contact your parent group or day care supervisor for more information. THUNDER BAY ADVOCATES FOR QUALITY CHILD CARE ... Thunder Bay Advocates for Qua I ity Chi Id Care wi I I be meeting on Thursday, Apri I 17, 1986, at 8:00 p.m. at Ogden Community Centre to discuss the fo I lowing: Representations to the Special Committee on Chi Id Care; report and fol low-up to the presentation ma.de to City Counc i I; and plans for future activities of the advocacy group. If you require chi Id care, please advise by cal ling 345-7802 no later than Apri I 16. "The lack of better data on the number of children requiring chi Id care services is, perhaps, a reflection of the profound disinterest in the Ii ves and we I fare of chi Idren and their fam i I i es, which we detect on the part of government and po I icy makers in Canada." [The Katie Cooke Report] �Times-News, March I I, 1986 Chronicle-Journal, March 11, 1986 Daycare provides hot times ByHA\'lllt'IIOOD Chronidr-Juurn.11 Slarf An anxious cro•·d of 150 peopl•. mosl of lhem women and t'hildnn, overflov. td council chamben Mon• day. tttking lurns lo ,peak out agiiinsl policits lh•y feel lhruien lhe i,.,1111.sn:1>T rily'1 daycare ... •·tn hilu.•5 syslem. lrightc-ning" The community sen·ice~ commillee -.·as faced "·ith JO depulalions from indi• viduals or groups im·olved with day• care. The message was the ume Krap SOC'iail ~rvires' plan to cul back on daynre starf and pass on large tosl incrr.un 10 full-pay users. ··Tb, plans are jt.-opardizing the municipal daycare system we have in place:· ,aid Rulh Wells. president of Thunder Bay Ad,·ocales for Qualily Child Care. • new umbrella group. --coun<il musl ask Ibis policy be re• scinded immNiialely ... At issue is an administration report ~~!c:!!': :a~:~::n··::5!::,,~~l:f!!: Several speakers conlf:nded higher ft.-eS v.·ilJ lower daycare occupancy rates lo lhe point where the city will have to dose one or more of its cenlres. 01hen said single parents especially have had to pass on jobs ilnd drop out of training courses bl"Cause of a Jack of daycare. Fiona Karl,tedl. speaking for lhe Northweslern Ontario Regional Day Care commillee, said she found the hiked· fees ··an extremely frightening proposal... KIIAUS•; HOOED Aid. Peter KraUS<? IMclnlyrel got 1 boo from the p.1rllsan crowd when he sug~<-sl<d the indirecl subsidy might not entirely be needed and questioned .. ~·helher, al Hn:es, lhal ldayca;reJ need is being placed •·her, ii belongs." But Kr,;,use's insi~tcnce the real problem lies with the lederal and provincial governments, who should be ••pres• sured'' lo change their plans. met with agreement from the majority of the committee. A tettm from city social services Jed by Jim Dolph, told lhe commin,.' the eliminalion ol the indirect subsidy, now set lo occur at the end of lhe year, was the chief faclor prompling the report. Also, '"if we don't move lo enrolment• based contracts, lhe province could cancel all other subsidies," uid Qolph. Dolph and other Slaff explain«! laler the daycare enrolmenl contracts will nol penalize parents for suddenly• <'hanged circumstances. The agree• ments will contain cancellation clause& based on only 48-houn notice, allowing parenls wh05e work hours, family conditions or locations have chan,ed to avoid paying for unused daycare lime. Delph said currently only 69 per cent or city daycare spaces are occupied and lhal a largel of 90 per cent is needed lo sl.ilve off the impending fee hikes. • Nonetheless, many 11dermen ex• pressed <'1Jncem "'ilh the reporl's sue• geslions and the comm1tlt..-e deferred the mosl conlroversial six of J1 recommen• dalions alter commillee dlairman Aid. Dusly Miller rel•yed some recent d<•el• opmenls on lhe provincial level: daily rale (ar chilflren in clty daycare. Mosl thanJes afl«I lhe 275 children un• der care 1n (our organized centres. Amonglhem: • Fee hikes sl.ilrting this September to be1w ..n $26.33 and $28.16 per child per day from $17.$0 currenlly charged, •·hen the ••indir«t subsidy" from the federal ,ovemment thars passed on by the province is eliminated. • Enrolment-based stalling, using four-hour "supply" daycare workers, permanent parl-timers and splil shifts u, pla« of some of U,., ..lixed"' stall. • Enrolment contracts with parents, JSin& a binding contract lhal would ~~!~ 1rhea~u:~r i~1d~~~!!~eitf:~~ places the current method of billing cli• eni. based on 1Uendance records. • Clooing two of the centres for the monlhs of July and August. when sys• lem••·id< occupancy is only 50 per eent. C"IT\' TRAPPED, Bllr... ··we are truly caught betw,.n I rock and a hard place - ho"·ever, lhere b 1 ALREADY BIG l'IIOHLEMS Several speaker$ lold u,., commillee lilllt lighl al lhe end of lhe lunnel." she the changes could destroy a daycare announced. Miller said provincial official$ hive S)'S1f'm 1hat already has problems, in• dudin& ill cost to the lower ranks of recently admillcd the plan to recover middlf'-income people and .. working the fuJI cost of daycare from iother• wise I unsubsidized families Is "al odds .. poor•· and with low pay-levels for sLilfl. ··why is u,., city so eager lo further re- with the Liberal government's expan11rid at"<'f'.11 to qua lily daycare?" asked sion of such services: Joan Williams, a parent using the city , ··Regional direc:lon tol lhe Ministry <enlres. '"A subslanlial rale increase ol Community and Social Services) wlh •·ill force parenlJ to find less expensive be asked to relax this policy" while u,., government prepares a white paper on and CinleriorJ daycare." "Compu-ed to other increaHS, I.he ex• all daycare Issues, she uid. "I've heard more than enough to con• ltaonlinary increase in dar,care fees appeal'$ dillocull to justily. • said Wells. vince me we're jumping the gun on this lOting cily daycare fees rose 350 per issut!."" said Aid. B•lly Kenn<dy IMcK• cent bel~·..n 1!174 and lasl year, double ellarJ. '"There are numerous long and short-term impliulions, like daycare in/lalion"s <limb. Judith Mongrain. pr<Sid<nl of the Ca· centre closures." The committee deferred lhe ilems on nadian Union ol Public Employees' Local t1 repraenlin& city v.·orkers, said the !ee increase, summer closures, inlhe polities •·ill cost both daycare work· clus1on of younger-aged infants and an ers and p,1rents usinl the city service April I largel dale for dropping lhe lndi• lh•ir jobs. lhe Jailer becausr lhry"II ~ttl subsid,., ..~ial services will modily have lo quil rather than pa .. mosl ol its propos.a s 1n lime for the commitlee'1 April meeling. th Th~ co~~illtt, however. agreed to °o~:~'::!~Yiorca the ~ity lo pass on e,imination ol the lndi· drop its m1mmum user fee ubout S2S 1 year> for ~·elfan~ clienls and lo raise the reel daycare subsidy - roughly IO per slandlird deduction used to r•kulale u,., doycare subsidy "means lesl" lrom 10 ::!:'a:-~u~r~!ni~:n-~--~ per cent ol net Income lo 25 per cent, Sl,t!llper child, .. wid Wells. .. 11'1 unlikely lhert art very many broadening auiilanre •haibility . famihes ~·ho can afford lhese fees," she The cily will also pl,ace lhe iuue 15qua• uid, prtdiclinl a rnlriC'lion of munlcl· rely on the shoulden or the province and pal dayn~ to subsid11td, lower-income anempl lo lobby lor relcnl1on o/ the in• d1rorl 1ubsldy. l1milit1 and ..the rich." ::'l!>~~:rfo5 :.::i Parent awareness__me~ting--· at Long lac day ca-r~ "c;e.ntre, ,· ' ....... , _ _;- --- JI - be eligible lo r~ccive a subsidy to a~si1t was pn:v1ous1y quesuonea by parents lhem in paying for the cosl ol kt..-epine concerning the cost or part-time day. lheir child in day rare. Janlunen care usage. Jt is hardtr lo Hhedu)e str~~rd thal the assist.nee Is nol wel- st~ffing for part-time day care, so that LONGLAC - Gu\·crnmcnt suh~idy fare but a·subsidy. TI1rough this furmat ra1~cs the cost, she said. • . • • • •. ends lur lht- Longlar O~y C;,rr Centre on 1).&rt~i~ ~ubsidizalion can be available~ Jn an dforl lo miintatn stable -...·ork• Nov. J, iillld U,e adminislr.1lors Mr'-' plan• - Ehg1b1hly dl'pcnds upon inct1me Mnd ing condilions lor the slliff, therefore rening ahead. mcinlhly bills, with available im·ome u ducinc lht pouibilily of Joosine ,tart, . A Lout 15 porcnts atknded a parent the key. Jttnluncn asked parrnU loronsidct hava~,;,renrss 1m:tling where lhcy were A policy, 10 say thal .aJJ parcnb v.·ould ine the day care closed for two months gi\'c•n an u51porlunity lo dirtcl their romplcle a nl't'ds test, was an idea pre. in U1e summu or make it a\l'ailable for quc!<lliuns lo lot·al dd)' rare.· h·adcrs and u·ntrd al the meeling. This way lhtre full time wurking J'41rents onJy during C,1;h·i11 r.tt.'l'll, proi:ram !>Uf1Cn'i~or -...·ilh wuuld ht no sel lee. A fol ol JJ(.'ople try lo th.al lime. •• lhe Mmistry of Cummunily aod Social rc•ducc llitir i,icomc lax, lhis is a way to Desnciges Blier. i member ol the Sl'n·ic-es. rcdu(.'e individual day rare fees, said slalf, iolrodured 1hr Jnle~ution pro111(:rt.·a~cs in day c.ire rafts ar sd,cd- r.rccne. Jrim for mtnt.ally or j>hystcally h.andulc:d lhroughoul lhc )'l'ilr to inf.·orpurate • l<"iJJJicd children 01ildrcn placed in tJlil 1 u~tr va,· J1C>hry. nic i,cr dif.•m, v.·hat it Running .tn dlil'icnt day c.re r~duces p1ugro1m can be ;n~isted in learning and fCl)lS IOtlJlt.'rale i,,<:r child pcr day, is $20. operating costs. and one "''ii)' Co do that ran imvrove In basic skills. PariaiLs of TI1e people are paying Sil a day. 111e is through utilization of stall. JI tnrol• special netds children should contact pro\'iun: 1i.ays 80 per rcnl and the lown ' mcnl is JOO per t·cnt capacity it ie du,·a the day rart centre lof furtJ1er inlorma• pays 20 per cenl ol the .tmounl not µaid roSlS. Prc~ent cap;,cily is 45 children. lion concernin, th program.• . .by p.rt:nLS. .. Enrolment is about 100, bul allendance Fee calculation for children v.ith ipev;,rit..'S lo meel the n,-eds of the J)-'renl.5. cial nt-eds a,, difrtrcnt. said Vinceol Hates will mcrease $1 lor the first Cuntractcd c.:nn,lmenl. whiC:h would Green, v..·ho has been associated v.ith child in Loth June and Novl•mLcr. m.iiinLain ma>:imum use of the d.-y c.iire the program for about four ye.an, sajd TI1t· costs art prl'll)' wtJJ fixed," said staff, is 1nothc1 elliciency me.ans. nus he found the Longlac day cai-e cent.re J~ne Jantuncn, 11ocial ~crvice adminis- v.·ould involve commJlling p.itrenls to Wlique. ''Bt:eau.se of the French immerlnlor. TI,o~e inc1udc hydro, heat and briug lheii child lo day care. sion that is h~re. And II works." he said. 5.aluies. .:~•~•~o~'g_,h18J; of•~~ f:~:it•:1.f:~~d1r~:~Jt..!ii Tht more children that allend day ,..,!u~~ • care, the lt!SS lJ1e cost.s. II 1~-ople take with a sillec. --who can allord to pay two th• baby 1iller, .. said Jantunen. . • Thr biggest' question," admitted 01cir children out ol the day care, the limes?" she asked. cosl per child will co up. she added. "We v.·ould have to give a financial Bernice Picard, an early childhood 'Po1rcnls wert em·ourag1..-d to complete "Lrcak for pt.-ople undtr contract," Jan• worker, following lhe meelin& wa1 furm 7, ~·hich is a Nt•eds Tt..•sling for• •luucn aruwered. ..~·hy the aovemme"l doan'l iee day m.-t, to dl·lcrminc whether they would Agnes Vinrent, day care supervisor, careasimporlanl." Hy H~;A A~EIIS-11\"IIO/'i rorn·~J11.mdul CTtll•J1l1unc 329-~71 I) ' 0 ~f1~~.:!t~ 0 Daycare studying finances meetings with M.P.P., council Ma,alhon Dilyc.are ii invt~li&:tlins ,;,hc,na1i\·e1 lo finance i" ,·rn1u· on lic:111l0 D,i.,.c. The h\•.trd tha1 ovtr~cc1 the op,cra1ion of lhc n.·01,c mcl "ilh M.P.P. Cii1lc) r~ulio1 l~sl_ -...n·I. 10 cnlisl. his suppm1 m a11;u11mg fundins f,om lhc pu.n-incial rmc-rnmcnt. Da)·fa1t pll'lliJcnl him Ransom ,ays 1ha1 M.11.a1hon Daycart i1 lhc fo\l l.tdli1y in llu: nullh of lhis lypc "1htt1 i\n 1 1 toing 10 1;c1 fundins... The MiniSII)' ol Communil)' ;,md So.:i.tl Sc1vio:s (C'OMSOC) fundcd rhc upna1ion cm1s lo, a sia,i up pl'I ind .tnd 1.·,m1ribu1,·d ., omc of 1hc capi1al 10 puu:ha~c rquip1m·n1 hul nin1i11ucs 10 ruud ,,nly sub~idi,cd llJl-''n. • Ho111som uid 1ha1 Pouliot promi>cd 10 1.tU, 10 ,-c111u: fK·,1plc in Tuwnlo ;md lll"C ii 1ht1t \,,o ~umc lu1J1Kial lallpp,111 ;,\a1l.1hle. R;,n~om ~.aid hi) ho.ud 1old Poulio1 1hc 0·1111t ir. a 1:10\\ iu, facility »nd ••1w1 a \\ hi1c dcphan1••. lie Hid 1ha1 money is 111a·drd to 1c1 ii 1111001:h 1hc 11'°" lh )&·au. "Wc'\t 1:01 1hr ha,il.:s," ht )o1id, bu1 ,ueucd 1ha1 1hc ci.:n11c m·rds )Omc ••t,ilb" 1u uial.c lhc tol'n·icc a daycare "th•• mo,c people ,...ill be h.-ppy wi1h. •• The bo;,rd hn•c pu11in1 all lu I fuud raisin& r11s in one basl.ct. JI inlc:nds lo .tpprnach co1pora1ions in lhc communi1y 10 ask for a per hour annl in nch,;,nge for iuaro1n1trin1 Sp.tees. The cenue could fill 1he rnc1vcd spaces on a condi1ional arranicmcn1 until the corporation, wan1cd ii . The cor• pon1ion could oiler guar.1n1ccd spacn u para ol 1hc bcocfh • p.tcL.a1c 101 employees. 'fht fin1 corpo10111ion 10 be ofrc,c-d 1his auan1irmrn1 will be ch; T,1'-'mhip of M.tralhon. The Da)~·J1c Hoard hiils ;,lll:cd 10 mcel ..., i1h 1l1c ,·uuncil 10 discuss ihis and 01hcr \\.&)'' rl,c- munilipali1y can of• fr, ,h,i)l,.nrc. Thh indudn ~sl:in& Ilic iowmhip 10 t·ovc:1 20-;0 QI 1hc c.m1 ol 1ubiidi1cd 1pt11rn CCOMSOC onJy p,1y1 kO'l•) and providina or u1h,iJiiin1 lCI\ ice, ,uch as snlic11011. I ocal sc.,.,.ice clubs h.-vc also l1n·n .t\L1.·J 10 C1.H1laidcr purd,.-sin1 .:,111ipmcnl for lht dayc;,rc. ~~ H.iillin, 1hc p1ofik of 1he do1yca1c ala .1 lien ice prn\·idcr is another ,11a1cu 1-hc bua,d is puuuing. ro, im.lanct 1hc ccnur ru111:n1ly olftn a "la1chl.c)'°' pro~r.•m in 1ht moruing ro, 11uhlic )Chool siuJcno. Pau·nu nn d1op 1hrir child1cn oil a1 lhc d.tycarc any1imt ahcr· 1:30 wh4.•rc ltu:y will he lool.ed ar1n 11111il lht ~duml lm) ar• rives in (10111 of lht ccnue. A 1turl'a11i1,uiun is 1al.ing pla~e a1 1hc t·cnuc. The day has been hrol.cn dC'lwn inlo "bloch" which :.re orfc:rl'd ill a rtdun·J rate for para lime d;1)'l'arc IIH'f!r> 1ha1 conuact a v.1.·ck ahead. k.an\Om calls the ))'Mi.:m "t·onlt:&CI billinc." Ul'~idcs lhl' la1chl.cy blocL a 1110mins and af1~1noon ••socialiialion .. blocl: i1 a\·ailablc s.o 1h.t1 children "ho a1e d,oppcd oil c.-.n be im·olv• rd in a cm~1rk1c pwr•.1111 in11cad of comin& in lhc middle of s.omrthina. The S)'Uem is hdpina 1hc cenuc ,a1jonali:1c iu scl1cdul• in&, h's ca~ier lo dc1c,mine how many staff members arc ncedtd. ho"· much food should be .t\·ail.tblc and removes 1hc surp,is.cs in the worl.crs• day. Diop-in d.t)·nrc U)CU 1ha1 don'I nofily 1hc ,rnuc of Iheir in1cn1ion by 1hc Thuud;iy p,ior to using 1hc service ·will pay lhc p,rmium ra1e of Sl.00 ~r hour. u~crs takini advantage of 1hc con1,ac1 billina s.avc 75C per hour. "We're nol • squeaky whtel," says Ransom. ••we sc1.tmblc hul "'C' provide a sc:r.,.ice.•• The un·ice is srnwin& siodily he says. The ccnlr< is holdina i1s own wi1h the cquhi1lcn1 of 14 full lime p;u1icipo11111. Marathon Mercury, January 29, 1986 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northwestern Ontario Day Care News, April 1986 Subject The topic of the resource Organizations Description An account of the resource Northwestern Ontario Day Care News April 1986. Includes information about Indirect Subsidy; NWO Care Project; Child Care Video Project, Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care; day care news for Sioux Lookout, Terrace Bay, Big Trout Lake, Geraldton, Thunder Bay; Thunder Bay Advocates for Quality Child Care. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context nwodcn_86apr Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Canada - Ontario - Thunder Bay Canada - Ontario - Sioux Lookout Canada - Ontario - Terrace Bay Canada - Ontario - Big Trout Lake Canada - Ontario - Geraldton https://digitalcollections.lakeheadu.ca/files/original/495184ecbd0ef63599e85a91b02280b0.pdf 6a080692f568bd1ed0b7932f7823ddb9 PDF Text Text Northvvestern Ontario Day Care Nevvs JULY '86 We are pleased to advise that we recently received a grant from Secretary of State Women's Programs which al lows us to continue our activities, including publication of the newsletter and the planning and organization of the regional chi Id care forum(s). public hearings have now been completed. The Special Committee is expected to table its report in the fal I. Ask your federal member of par I iament to keep you informed of the progress of the Special Committee. ******************************************** NWO DAY ~ARE NEWS is a forum for the sharing of information between day care groups throughout Northwestern Ontario, as wel I as providing information about what's happening on the federal and provincial scenes, both in terms of governmenta I po Ii cy / I eg is Iat ion and with advocacy groups' activities. We hope that this newsletter wi I I combat some of the isolation that day care workers and advocates feel and that through sharing resources, ideas and action plans we can develop strategies to ensure the growth and strengthening of quality day care in our reg ion. We welcome submissions to this newsletter from every day care centre and committee throughout Northwestern Ontario. Please send art i c I es, newsc I i pp i ngs, Ietters, etc. to Box 144, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7C 4V5. WARMEST CONGRATULATIONS to each and every one of you who made presentations to the federal government's Special Committee on Chi Id Care hearings in Dryden and Thunder Bay. Parent groups, day care workers, administrators, politicians, women's groups, native organizations, labour representatives, individual parents everyone gave impressive representation and you should al I be proud of yourselves. The Special Committee certainly heard strongly and clearly - the day care issues in Northwestern Ontario and the needs of our children. But now we must keep monitoring the activities of the Special Committee and keep pressing for action on the recommendations we have made. The CITY OF THUNDER BAY ESTABLISHES ADVISORY COMMITTEE We would like to congratulate City Counci I for establishing its Chi Id Care Advisory Committee. The committee is made up of representatives from counci I and city administration, parents from day care centres and private home day care, and the president of the Thunder Bay Advocates for Qua I ity Chi Id Care. The objectives of the advisory committee are "to investigate issues and developments related to chi Id care in the City of Thunder Bay and to advise the Community Services Committee of the Corporation of the City of Thunder Bay". Some of the issues the Advisory Committee hopes to tackle in the near future include the indirect subsidy, fee increases and enrollment-based fees. We hope that this committee wi I I be beneficial to the operation of the city's day care services and the decision making at City Hal I. DAY CARE VIDEOTAPES CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN AND MANY THANKS TO SIOUX LOOKOUT AND MARATHON for their participation in the video project! The Ontario Coalition for Better Day Care, through an Ontario Women's Directorate grant, sponsored the project which resulted in the production of videotapes portraying the situation of day care in ten diverse communities of the province. Northwestern Ontario was al lotted two of the ten tapes. Sioux Lookout was chosen �(2] as representative of an established day care that was threatened with closure because of the indirect subsidy withdrawal. Marathon was selected as the second site because it is one of the newest day care programs in the region and demonstrates the problems faced and the commitment required of a nonprofit parent organization working di I igently to provide high qua I ity day care for their children. Thanks to the expertise of Monitor North, coupled with the enthusiasm of Sioux Lookout and Marathon day care people (and Fiona and Margaret's newlylearned editing ski I Is), we have two fine day care videos. You may wish to borrow these videos for information/ education purposes. Contact Jan Garden, Marathon Day Care; Janet Wilkinson, Box 177, Sioux Lookout; or the NWO Regional Day Care Committee, Box 144, Thunder Bay. PROVINCIAL CONCERNS DECEMBER 31, 1986 looms closer and closer, and sti I I no word about new provincial policy that could save our centres from closure. In the provincial budget speech, the treasurer announced that Ontario would request the federal government to negotiate new policies to make day care a public service. While this is a positive direction, we al I know that federal-provincial negotiations are a ti me-consuming process. It wou Id not on I y be ironic, but tragic, if positive new day care pol icy was put into effect after our centres have been forced to close. We need action now to ensure the stabi I ity of our existing centres. The provincial day care Pol icy Review has not been made public. Ask your MPP what the status of the Review is. RED LAKE UPDATE The day care centres in Red Lake, Ear Fal Is and Balmertown have received COMSOC funding to develop publicity materials to promote their services. A 24 page handbook for parents, which includes professional photos and children's drawings, is currently being compiled and wi I I go to the pub I isher in the next few weeks. The handbook wi 11 be distributed by al I three centres in the fal I. The pub I ication attempts to answer the questions every parent asks when enrol ling a chi Id in care, while also explaining the goals and benefits of group day care. In our community, many people sti I I don't understand what day care is and what benefits it can offer fami I ies. The project represents a cooperative effort to boost public relations and address, in a positive way, the chronic problem of declining enrollment at the centres in our area. ******************************************* NEWS ITEMS THE LIBERAL PARTY OF CANADA wi I I be holding a pol icy convention this fal I. We understand that a position on day care wi I I be developed at this convention. Please contact the Liberal Party representatives (especially convention delegates) and inform them of the needs, problems and solutions to the day care situation. Make sure they have a copy of your brief to the Special Committee. We have been advised that ONTARIO ATTORNEY GENERAL IAN SCOTT, WHO IS ALSO MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR WOMEN'S ISSUES, wi I I be visiting various Northwestern Ontario communities in September. (We believe Kenora, Dryden, Fort Frances, Grassy Narrows and Thunder Bay are included in his itinerary.) Plan to have day care spokespersons attend these meetings. It is important that Mr. Scott is made aware of our particular NWO day care concerns. THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND LOBBY OF THE ONTARIO COALITION FOR BETTER DAY CARE wil I be held in Toronto, October 24-27, 1986. It is important that as many NWO delegates as possible attend this conference to ensure our perspective is heard. It is a Iso import ant that we have the opportunity to share with and learn from other day care advocates - such meetings provide new energy to carry ori our important work. We are uncertain what subsidies may be available, so al I of us may have to think of raising some funds to assist our Northwestern Ontario delegates. �[3] REGIONAL FORUM(S) I Plans for the regional forum(s) are progressing. we are sti I I looking for your input to decide whether there should be one or two forums. We believe that we should hold the forum(s) as soon as possible, as it is urgent that we determine what action we must collectively take - particularly around the issue of indirect subsidy. We ask anyone who has not yet returned the planning survey to do so (a copy of the survey is enclosed). Detailed plans concerning the forum(s) wi I I be sent to you within a month. ********************************************* Response to our planning survey received to d~te indicates that Financial Stability of Centres is the most important issue for the majority of you. Relations with the provincial government, day care workers' concerns, and development of parent groups are also priority items. CONFIRMATION OF A GRANT FROM THE ONTARIO WOMEN'S DIRECTORATE to assist the Northwestern Ontario Regional Day Care Committee in carrying out research and pub I ic education initiatives has just been received. That assistance is gratefully acknowledged. Local repre~E~n~~!tYi~~wf~l9[~§p day-care issues ,,-. ' By Holly Ruperl The Special Committee on Child Care, a seven-member federal task force studying day-care services acrosa Canada, made a one-<lay stop in Dryden May 12. The committee's tenm of reference call for a review of the quality and availability of"'non-parental" care, the economic implicatio111 of child care, and the role of the federal government in the provision of care. The Dryden hearin'gs repr• sented a critical opportunity for pa• rents and day-<:are advocates in the northwest region to make their • --~ :...,. ,... _.. -:!fi: , ,~· _ "Cllolce Important" . Whenever the day-are isaue is. discussed, emphas11 11 alwaya placed on the importance of choice. People believe parents should be rr.e to choose the_ kind .of care they want for their_ch1ldren. Yet, given the current s1tuatton, parents do not always have a real choice when it comes to finding child For instance, parents have little choice if their children are noteligible for formal group day care. • The two municipally-run daycare centres that serve the Red Lake district in Red Lake and Balmertown, lack an infant-toddler program for children under two and care. an 1nt_egrated _p rogram to acco_mmodate special-needs chi I, ' dren. This meana many families in , .' • ~-~ .. :.- - I Only about 15 per cent of Canadian cliildren receive care in the formal day-care system. Rather than expand the system, both the federal and provincial govern• ments seem anxious to find the informal day-ean, market. A babysittet-, relative or neigh- f ,1 • • , i .'. 1• bor_- in short, anyone who cares • - -1. ~.j,:.''""' · · • .' •.~-- ~~,,;;"'i' • . ~ ., . concema known. Groups from Red Lake, Dryden, • Sioux Lookout and Fort Frances, among others, made submiasio111 to tire committee. The Red Lake delegation was small. I addresaed the committee as, a day-ean, parent and as a council member of the Ontario Coalition for Better Day Care, a Torontobased provincial lobbying group. I was joined by Rhona Karschti, a former day-are supervisor in Yel• lowknife, N.W.T., now living in Red Lake. . Together we tried to provide some understanding of the problems parents needing child care face in our area. As the committee will discover, they are problems parents are facing acrose the country. .. - ' • ~ " ~ ·'- · ':' I ~•• "-11 JMneltlJ Kclltynuk, a chHd-ca,e worlce< at Red Lake day-ca,e centre, takes "18 of Ta,yn Vachotl. Thirty.four children regularly attend day C819 in Red Lake. ' our area do not have accesa to the services provided in those centres. Both centres are working to provide the best service they can given their budget and·space restrictions. While program expansion is ::!i!/!'; ~!~1r:~• without an Under the existing system, the only way to get new long-term funding ia to raise fees. That would mean adding substantially to the financial burden day-care parents already carry. . • • In fact, the high coot· IS the main reason a great many parents cannot afford formal day care. Although all three levels of govemment help to fund day care, we have essentially a user-pay syatem. typically, parents must pay $2,000-5,000 per year for a licensed day-ean, space in Ontario. High fees have me.,;t that across thecountry,daycareisfactbecom• ing a commodity for the rich t who can afford full feesl and a -welfare service for those with low incomes (who are eligible for a subsidy 1. It's the middle-income families, whose earnings are not low enough to allow them to qualify for subsidy, who are hurt the most under the existing system. The user-pay system has thrown day-are services int.o a crisis situa• tion and small municipally-run centres are particularly at risk. Because many parents cannot for a child in his or her own homeis part of the informal care system. The informal is largely unregulated, making it almost impossihie to ensure good quality care. For parents who cannot find or afford formal care, placing their child in someone's home becomes the only available choice. To fully regulate informal care. ensuring quality care, would be a massive undertaking. Some daycare advocates believe the government might attempt it as a cheap alternative to improving the formal day-care system. It would not be cost efficient t<> fund the informal market at the expense of existing formal services. Already many day-care facilities across the country are not being used fully because of the critical re, lationahip between fees and enrolment. Taken together. the comments oi witnesses appearing before the special committee in Dryden made one point very clear: Parents need da) care; they want to see existing services protected and expanded. The federal government has an obligation to provide the direction and funds to stengthen the day- care services offered in individua1 communities. and in so doing, develop a day-care system that meet, the needs of all Canadian families The Special Committee on Chile afford day care. enrolment has Care will continue its hearing unu dropped, which in turn means daily late June and its report is due to b.fees must rise to cover the cost of tabled by November. The commil staffing and running the centre. It tee will accept written submission~ becomes a vicious cycle that can jeopardize the quality of care the children receive. The only way out. according to many day-care advocates. includ• ing those who made submissions to the Special Committee on Child Care. is a federal funding scheme that would see new dollars flowing into the svstem for each· licensed day-care space. from any concerned individuals or groups until June 2. These shouk be forwarded to The Clerk. Specia Committee on Child Care. Suit 308 151 Sparks St. Committees anc Private Legislation Branch. Houst of Commons. Ottawa. Ont. Kl,> 0A6. Holl.-.Rupert 1s a da_v-careadL·oeat, and freelance writer living lake. in Rec �[4] Day-aue funding was an issue repeatedly nused during public hearings conducted by the Special Parliamentary Committee on Child Care May 12 at the Best West.em Motor Inn in Dryden. Among those making presentations to the committee were representatives. of the Dryden Day-Care Centre, the Dryden . Day-Care Parents Group and the Norah Love Children'sCentre in Siowt Lookout. . ' Heather Corner, supervisor of the Dryden Day-Care Centre, told the committee, "During the years when couples are raising their families, t.ieir income is the lowest and their household costa are the highest in relationahip to that income. ., __2~ couples are trying to ·.,............, a home, pay a mortgage, raise a family and genera1; ly start a life. Today, many couples find they bot.h have to work to maintain the household. "l'hrough aft'ordable day-aue programs,• she said. "this can be accomplished.• Ms. Comer said direct sub, sidies will take effect in Dryden Jan. 1, 1987, "and we have tried to come to grips with this problem. • "We have loet approximately 20 children because of the implementation of direct subsidy.• Noting that day-care costa have rilien due tocleclinin« enrolment from $19.30 in Novemller of 1983 to $27.22 in November o{ 1985, Ms. Corner recommended that for parents in need. funding should be 20 per cent municipal and 80 per cent federal/provincial, and parents not in need should provide 55 per cent themselves, with 10 per cent from the municipality and 35 per cent from the federal and municipal governments. Jeri Tymura, spokesman for the Dryden Day-Care Parents Group, said. "I'he need for aff'onlable quality care for our children is real, yet this care is not accessible for reasons of aft'onlability, availability and the lack of 0exibility within the fragile support system that exists ,;ww." ' She told the ci:rmmittee, "If child<are services are limited to certain children, whether the criteria be the age or. ability of the child. or the 6nancia1 status of the family, t.hen the purpose of day care has been forgotten.• By pricing day-aue services beyond the means of middle income families, said Ms. Tymura, "we are reducing its chance. of survival." In conduaion, sbe told the committee, "There muat be a longt.erm commitment to aft'ordable, quality child care in Canada. "There muat be a concerted effort to eetabliah a reasonable and consistent means of supporting our existing child<are faci!i; ties. There muat be in place a sy&t.em by which the private sector. whether it be by business or industry, (can) establiah child care in the workplace.• Saying it would be "disastrous to- see what bu evolved disappear," Ms. Tymura apresaed hope that the committee will come up with some tlnn reeolutions and direction for the future. A written brief pre.nted by the parents committee of the Norah Love's Children's Centre in Sioux Lookout. stat.es, "Our children are not a social burden - they are an investment.• The centre usually has a waiting.list of about 10 children. but the brief state&. "Although we need more-cay<are services. our moat urgent concern is that we will lea lhllM we already have. "IC need be,. it suggeeta, •cut back on welfare programs that serve adults; had their childhood been bettar, they may not have needed help as adults.• Accompanied._by 13 individual letters. the Norah-Love submission states, • At our day-<:are, many of the children are from middle-income eaming families. "Without funding, fees for 'these parents would increase to $25 or ,$30 a day. Moat ,would have to -it other, lea, satisfao. t.ary- child care 8ffllllgemmta. If theN parents withdraw their children, there would not be enough others to keep the day care open. Thus the service would be loet to the poor, the rich and the special needs children.. 'Recommendations in the brief include providing a comprehensive day-aue system, "which P= vides numerous options to fami. lies, including leaves, infant care, latch key programs, toddler and pre-school care 80 that caring parents can make the best choice for their children and their economic condition.• The committee will erid its croaa-eountry hearings near the end of June and will table a report on its findinp to the House of Commons in November. • l RED lAKE DISTRICT NEWS. MAY 1986 ·1n China some parents send their· children to "week care." A firefighting team from China visited the Red Lake Day-Care Centre May 8. 'The children were excited with their guests and pleased with the opportunity to sing their repertoire ofsongs. Their Chinese guests were impresaed bJ the centre - and the children. There are dilferences in day care • like a lot of everyday things • between Chins and Canada, according to Ding Haicheng and Piao Jimbe. "Some parents drop oft' children to day care centres during the daytime and pick them up in the even• ing," Ding explained. "Some centres are different • parents drop oft' children on Monday and pick them up on Saturday." . He explained that this type of childcareisfor~olderchildren who look after themselves.• He explaiiled that this situation happens particularly with younger couples in which both. parents work during:_ can the day and go to school in the evenings. "ln Chins the young couples like to study," Piso Jimbe added, to in• crease eaminp. • Ding said that generally day care centres in China are similar to the one .in Red Lake, "but there are • more of them and more kids." "In China.• he said. "the children are grouped in classrooms scoording to age because there are ;o many children." He explained that most far.1ilies have only one child in Chins. Day care centre supervisor Lee Moorley explained what the children eat at the day care centre. "Do the children order their own dishes," ssked one member of the delegation. After singing their guests an enthusiastic selection of songs the children listened· as the men returned the favor. Each child was presented with a Panda bear lapel pin. The Panda is the official symbQI of China. • Norah Lqve Children's Centre: DRYDEN OBSERVER, MAY '86 Day-care cos~s cause concern Day-care for pre-school chi!- Ms. Wilkinson told the ~mmit- usually carries a waiting list of dren "muat be accesail!le to every- tee, "This is not a woman's issue. about 10 children, Ms. Wilkinson one," Janet Wilkinson. president "Ibis is a children's issue. It is said. • Although we need more of the Parents' Committee of the their well-being which is at day..:are services, our most urNorah Love Children's Centre in stal:e. Therefore, if it is given gent concem is that we will lose Siowt Lookout, told the Special that women will' be out of the those we already· have." Parliamentary Committee on home(orwhateverreason.young Many day-care children are Child Care during its May 12 children must be given the best from middle-income earning public hearings in Dryden. care and nurturing that can be families; she said. Ms. Wilkinson attended the substituted. ''Without funding, fees for hearings along with fellow Sioux "l'his is an all-encompassing these parents would increase to Lookout area representatives goal but better that than to lose $25 or $30 a day. Most would Deanna Koval,· day<are super- forever the enthusiasm and have to seek other, less satisfacvisor; Madeline Blum; Gamet creativity of early· childhood to tory child<are arrangements. ff Angeconeb; Delma Clace and our society," she said. these parents withdraw their Margie Perroa. "Consequently, your commit- children, there would not be Anticipated federal cutbacks tee must look at program re- enough others to keep the dayto day-care subsidies have re- moved from welfare that wtll care open. Thus the service suited in the province's decision serve all children.• would be lost to the poor, the rich to only. fund those 'day-care _ __Ms~ Wilkinson said..chil~ll _· and the special needs children." clientswhoqualifyforfullorpar- aze"aninvestment"asop~~ Among the recommendations tial subsidies through a special a "social burden" and suggeste\l, . the parents' committee made at needs test. "IC need be, cut back on welfare the hearings is "a comprehensive Margaret Mitchell, Vancouver programs that serve adults; had day-om, system which provides East MP and a committee mem- their childhood been better, they numerous options to families. inber, said the day12re system "is msy not have needed help as eluding leaves. infant care. latch for the rich or for the poor" and adults." key programs, toddler and prethat middle-income workingpeoTelling the committee the school care 80 that caring parents pie don't really have any means Norah Love Centre serves about can make the best choice fur their of funding at all. 75 parents using 48 full-time children and their economic , Reading from a written brief, spaces for children and that it situation." • �• Federal government must be convinced more mon.ey needed for child care By 10-ANN MUIALICH Qnalcle-J-- lh.c Cfhronidt•Journ11l w - , , ...,1c,ia Tbo federal 1over1mo1t muat be "coovinced" that IIIOft mooey hu to beplaced i• cbild care illclucllnl ntra ar■ ats for Nortbera Ontario comm• nlUes, says a member of the Federal · ~~•Uamentary Committee•: MP Marpret Mltcbell lNDP•V - : ver Eull also said Ille recammeodl the • federal 1ovemme111 establllh day care lelislaUOll tbat will elimloola the CID-ada Assistance Piao and place day care under 1 , _ act wblcb mikes II available to families of all lacoma. ==-- ==·:~ ine~ la l o ~ c:llild care ill li&ht of tbe sibility for care 1mq parents, tbe prt. vate sector, the voluntary sector and 1ovemmenll. In developin' ■ lteru- ~1:e!~~'!n~~ ~U:toe:=: the special circumstances of v■riOUI families u well u tbe fuwx:ill implica•• Uons ol any sovenment lniUatives.Following i:::talionl b y - • 111 CJl!ID· ~ allocaled duri!I& 11111, •cb...:.. "Mell mt <Ultry to 1111d ,.___, Bui sometimes, we feel that we don't hive freedom 11 aU! " lbesaid. • _Wally Mcltly, executive director of Tillinlpn Child and Family Services ill Siowi _Lookout diSCUlled tbe need for appropruate communlty-bued child care facilities in the area ae"ed by lhe ~the ~time. tbereareaoday care or child care pn,cnnw 11 all ill our reaion- We iqt tbe federal--~~ t b e ~ l o f cbildcare procnma bent and eornc1 11111 1aeqlllty," Mid llcXay, IDdlaa ..... nlulloa ..,... nearly 10,000 Cree and Ojibwa natives llvilJC ill the Nor1II lnllll Thunder Bay to Hudloll Bay Call but of tbe communlllel ID Ille recion are,:r:only. ullfor't:::!:""'-i::-..= of the communl~•- McKay aaya aeveral cnmmualUea ba,.. told them Ibey bave DOI been ableto ........ uwadiDI or uW development taacblDl........,.. beca... "the-wbo expreu _ _ , . t ca1111a1 find ad•' 111111todaycarelarlbelr-." Slallsl'Wllllf aodl'byllla Dadloy fllwi lD f._ lie 'l'Nul Lau to..,_. their female Cne COllllllllllilJ-111& Trour. Lake, located 400 mllea aortbeaal of ~ Bay, la allo la . . . . . . need I Tht of 111e community repn1in& cbild care mllll be a factor ID tbe de- l llvery of aervice, Miller explained. The ''Toronto" nperiencesbould DOI dictate :re&ulatory meuurea. lle&ional dlaparl,Uea mllll be lalrea lalocoasideralion. lllBer-:T'onner city mayor,added lbal thecnmmi-ooecla torecapizalbalill mrtberD citiea 1ucb u TlwDder Bay, hi&her COiia for fOlld and healillfl create hl&her facility costs, tbua hi&her per dlema. Salartea of cUenll are DOI aec:• eautily bi&ber, sbe said. A special Northern remicuon should be induded ID the per diem formula. , ,, ..,. ' ! ,. t I, ' 'I. ,. .,,, . : :· ," 'f '. . "' •. ·, Karbtedt aaid lbat Ille atabwty oc nl~=carecenlrelcaaonlybeaccom by Ille reducllon ti mer cbarled to parents. • "We, IMrefora, l'COIIIIDelld lbal Ille f - . i aovenimeat immediately vide direct .....,11 to municipal and ...,. profit day care centres to atabllize the ailliq aenlce and enaure the contlaaod..,enlionof thecenlrel." Karlsllldl apc,te about 1be silllalloo of rural famllleo. Resean:11 baa llllicated =t~~;en~•..::i::-i:;: or r~ with them wbile Ibey wort., •:ii:~:r =~u.:: ~y b6la':rcf;!~0 wamen are often rellrlcted from allellclmNllap became of loodequato cbild can and/or lack of llDaac9 lDl farm l o x : ~ ~ =·:.. ..... be UID ''llrllu---." uidKarla, .Jedi. Tbe N.W.O. llelillllAI Day Can Cocamllloe hu aludlecf tbe Report ot the Tau Force on Cllild care. chalrecl by Dr. KalleCooke-. Tbecnmmilleeaareo,I with mnat-ol Ibo recommuclail... • made ID lhat report. llanlhlll'• Can! Vie,' a - t r denlopalaal worter and Ju Garden, bmlDeaa admlnlstrlar for Ille Marathon Day Care Centre DOied lbal ,,_ .,. Q lely-W tollnaace - lD- Ille y-care centre, localed of Ille Penlecostal Church. •, . :\1h·/1 ' _.,y r:=::::;~-~~-..:-...::~~i:;:.:,;~~ many ot,. are siDgle parent women between 15 and 21 years iii aae. So tbe need for &Olld cbild care facWllea 11111 more lillelytoiacralelDBIC'l'l'Oal~lllaa- dac~==!fectea:·~com• THUY LY Thuy Ly. CO--OnllDIIOr of the Immigrant Women·• Employment Place in Thunder Bay toJ!lf the committee it'• "not (air" for low income earners to pay the same price for day care u hi&h iJI. come earners. She said most immi• grants see day· care "an expensive thing." The needs of immigrant women. i~';;!~~ es4.i:~~~! ~i~'in.m in 1980 with her husband and two children. She said Ibey departed from their homeland for freedom, which they lhou&hl , they would obtain here. Bui Ibey louad . otherwase. • =-~:.ii~ be llaibili% ~ the nature of ~~ e l l u acl~~r~.;' exi3.""=of~ dressin& of day care ladiaa need■ communlllea should not be subject to JurlsdicUon dlaputa·i.c- federal and en,vincial 1overnmen1a. -· - ThWICler Bay alderman Dua1y lllller, cbairmaa of the community aervica committee told tbe live-member panel tbal tbe lederal aovernmenl must establish a standardized formula ill determiain& tbe per diem u well u eliminate iJI. din!ct adminiltraUve COiia from tbe per diem formula. FIONA KARLSTEDT Tbe Nar11nN11ent Oalulo ReciOllll Day Care Commiltee, represented by Fiona Karlltedt, told Ille lederal•appolaled committee that ID illveatmenl m tbe well-bela& of cbildren and IIIDi• lies mall:• social and econctlDic sense. The commilmenl~ ll tbe development of a com ive child care syatem that woul meet tbe aeecls of all children and lamiliea. "We Nquire a child care syatem lbal la accessible to au familiea irrespective of their economic 1111111, their employ• . ment status or their 1eocraphic residence," noted Karlsledt. N.W.0. lla vutre&ionandlaaerviced by approximately 12,000 mile■ of hitlh• way Witb many communities accessiile only by rail or air. Approximately 236,000 people live io one city, seven towns, 36 towashipo, three improvement districts, 51 lndiaa reserves and 73 rural communities. "Of the 171 communlliea ill N.W.O., only II provide day care service■," she said. :;"'~ ,/,:-·; .--•-~,- , ~ MONIQUE MORGAN-MERCIER AND JORDIN BONIFERRO . .,.lime to play dulq aaamiltee) Ilaria& hen .!~.:r~ti;. of wily lbla la a prior• ity form, let me note that relaUve to tbe rest of Ille Canadian population, our populalioa ill BIC Trout Lake la very youa1. 1•1 Cenaus n..,.... &bow tbat aver 60 per cent of. our popwltioa ii .i BEV ROMANIUI ~~ .;g,.=:.i:...~.::.• loooilllfl,0001 mOGlh. e.. Bomantut, social ■enlcea •clmlnislntor for tbe Town ot Geraldton pleaded with tbe cnmmillN lo not place day care out ol reachlor middle incnm• families ID ■mall N.W.O. communltiea: Romanluk said middle illcnme earner■ are tbe "backhoae" of our tu bueand already pay more !baa lbeir lhlre for tbeae aervicea. "Ontario la llvlnl IOUlbera and eul• ern Onterlomore subaldlied apace■ . Give Northern Ontario back iadirecl ~~~- ~ =~lloo ■ee DWIJ of ,a bavilJC lo cloleCNlf mmB due to lack of enrolment u day can becomes more and more unaffordable. We do not hive enoup community-baaed service■ for our people-,"~ said. la • ..,-...- - . ..., doa DOI llllllll lbe ooec1a of Iba pubjlc, said Judilh MoacralD, president ot the Caudiaa Unlocl ot Public Employ-. Local rl. M_.ia, local ~ reaenla about IOO member■ told Ille , cnmmlltee lD Tbuader Bar, service■ provided 11 the mualclpa day care level, an~totallyforlholewwt• lnlda,o. • "There la DOI adequate fundillll naU• able for cblld care .._1oa to lacludt tbe aeecls of famillea wllh lhlll woe!<· era," she said, IIOllag lbal tbe majority of local f - must 11W dellODd on iJI. formal or private care u city service■ do DOI amrnr lbelr-. • -llyabotb_pd_ ment must •ye tbe cbiJd CIJ'e illue to see wbal w, be dOGe, "tbe best way." Sbe said tbe federal aovernment la alao employer and Iba! OPSEU expect, .. a leadership role" io Je1isl1tive chaqea, which then would lead to • ' tudinal c:ban&e- ID =.:::f:1:~~ cial~~ Pllbllc Service Employees Ualoa la one of seven women ...,.....iilli 51,GOO public aervlce employees ill the proviace. Roui told Ille paMI of 11Pa lbal unm bave barpiDiDI for day care for sometime. " II hu ID luue lhal hu been foupl both al tbe baruinlDI table■ and ill le&ialabnl acrau tbe ""'811ry. However, perbapa like medicare and pensm, unlom will bave to will child care al the barpininS lablea before lecia• latms will be pnaured to acL" . ....... u, ...... �• 20 THE CHRONICLE-JOURNAL: Salurday. Ma)'24. 1!186 Should informal hqme day care be regulated by government?_ TORONTO <CP) - Diane belongs to lD underpowld, seU-employed worldon:e that makes hundreds of mUlioas of dollars a year. She la one of an unknown number of l'"!'Pie who provide day care In their homes for an estimated 400,000 children of •onlna parents In Onta• rtoalone. Of!H out of desoeraUon, parents lurn to people Uke Diane because of :::-::::a~. a~~f.':.l"'~:'/f.C:: ~--~iw'J:.S:~:,~ :.::liccentre. • Diane, who didn'I want her last name used, cares for seven children at her Toronto home and doesn't declare her Income. Under Ontario's Day Nunertea Act, she should only be handling a maximum of five children, Including DO more than three kids under three years old and two under lhe ac• of two. To care for moni than nve children requires a licence. Bui Diane doesn't have a licence for her Informal day-care operation and DO level of government II aware of what sbe's doing. MOST UNREPORTED P~blic support for day c-are r:ivals other issues, poll finds !!•:•, Canadian Presa ,,,tc, Ofi:AWA " ~ •• •. Three out of lour Canadians say child care Is an Important Issue that should be high on government priorlty -lists, according to a poll comm issloned In June by Canada's two largest unions. •'Ihe poll sponsored by the Canadilln-Union ol Public Employees and Ille National Union ol Provincial Gelrernment Employees also sbawed a majorltx of people favor .,..eminent suppott for non-profit daf care centres over profit-making OQWprises. --Kami Stotsky, a research omcer for CUPE, said the results conflrrqed and "substantially supported the views that we've had on the 111.. •of day can,, particularly the lmpoi:tance ol day care to the pul>llc.c _-:•• -~A.' lot of times people feel child e,u:,t is not as lm_portant as other halller economic Issues such as free tra~or matters of the economy," Ms SIOISky said. "But these results cle.arly show, I think, that child care is" a ·very important Issue to Canadiill1;i .and It's something that goveinments have to deal with and are e~ted to deal with." 'l'.ise Corbell-Vincent, a spokesman ..for the Canadian Day Care A~vocacy Association, said lhe findin&, · 4;onfirm what the special par. llamenlary committee on day care hdrd from hundreds of people ac,:o.s, the counlry during public h~arlngs this spring. 11\e poll, based on 1,200 !llndom teJepJtone Interviews between June 7-20 11Cilh people over age 18, found 311 pi!r. cent of respondents feel child 'ls very important comoared ~re~ with other Issues, while 37 per cent said It was somewhat Important. Women, younger people, parents with children under 8 years, those with lower Incomes, part-time workers and those "leaning tn federal politics toward the Liberals and New Democratic Party" were more likely to Dnd the issue very lmportant J.;.t over hall ol parents rated day care very Important, compared with 35 per cent of non-parents. Ms Corbell-Vincent said she Is pleased non-parents rate it as highly as they do. "Hopefully It's because people understand that children are Canada's most precious resource and something has to 'be done for the crisis that exists In Canada around child care," she said. Other poll results, accurate wtthIn plus or minus three percentage points 95 llmes out of 100, varied liltie between parents and non-parents. Sixty-one per cent felt day-care money should go to child-care cenIres run by non-profit groups. Only 18 per cent supported more centres run by government and 13,per cent favored more public dollars spent on centres nm by companies for profit. And 58 per cent ol Canadians felt government 1noney would be beller spent• on more non-profit centres rather lhan subsidies paid to paren1s lo lake time oll work lo care for lheir awn children. Thirty-two per cent favored subsidies. . Ms Slotsky said the unions will 5end the results to the parllamenta. ry commluee. which has concluded Its public hearings and Is drafting·• report due tn November. A lludy by lhe Onlarlo CoaliUon For Better Day Care, a priv,te lobby group, indicales that 80 per cent of lhese Informal providers In lhe province lake !heir fees under lhe table, lgnortns any klnd of - · ~~iuatton isn't unique lo Onla· rlo -authorities aaree It applles In other provinces " Nobody knows much about lhem <home day•care worken>, aside from tbe fact lhey are mostly women who want to make a litUe money on lhe side," admlla Paul Sieme11s, manager of lhe children's unit at lhe Ontario Ministry of Communily aod Social Services. "We don't even know !heir numbers, and they areo'l telling qs because they don't want govenunent inl2rference... The ministry can only guess - by rough census calculations or the ::i~g~~~ c~s~ :;:i about 500,000 children In Onlarlo are receiving some form of day care. Further estlmales Indicate that only about 20 per cent of !hem, or 100,000, are In licensed day care. RAISE FEARS Horror stories abound at what happen, In some of the private homes u 10 children being kept In lhe basement where a teleYislon Is lhe real babysitter. And once In a while-a lragedy oceurs. . Last November In Bolton, near Toronto, a 49-year-old woman and lhe four childreo she WU looking af. ter died of smoke lnhalaUon when Ore swept lhrough her home. A con,ner's inquesl revealed lhe woman t:M:-:r~.':'"a:"r:i~':':1~.!: amounts of anU-depressant and diet drugs, malting her Incapable of reacting lo lhe emergency. 1bese revelations came u a shock to lhe parents, who from their Um• ited knowledge of lhe woman's Ille had beeo sslisfied with lhe aA"1!fll• menl • ''Tbere:s always a cUns.,. kind of fear In lhe back of your mind that somethJng's going to go wrong, " ssys Brigette Vlanna, admlnlslra· Uve assistant with lhe Ontario Status or Women Council, who at one time had her soa in private home care. BEOIOOSEY Erika Baker, who cares for nve chlldreo at her home near Toronlo, says parents "Just have to be a lilUe more chooly. • ta;~t~.::~~~ be a reason. I have to keep very sbict records In order to claim expenses. But I do have to pay Income . tax at lhe end of lhe year and thal's • why moat people don't give out recelpla . . . Ibey don't wanl to give up that money at lheend of lhe year." However, many day-care crillcs 111119 that parents often have HIiie choice about where they can place their children. Vluna finds fault with lhe whole government philosophy of providing subsidized formal day care-for lhe _ . but UWe for lhe middle clus. ''There ia a huge gap," she says. ~~':lr:i::t;1!-'"u!"!~i!'i: =L.C:l'!'~~~~~~--~or COST IS LOWER A space In a day-care cenlre cao coot $5,000 a year, while unlicensed home care usually coots much less. Although Linda Becker feels lortunate to hive her two.year-old daughtet under Baker's care, she acknowledges lhe uneasiness of first seeking out home day care. "Here I wu, beainl a woman to take my child and filidn'teven know her," says Secker. "But I was relerred to her by a friend and I went over to see her house and talked to her for qullea bit. • " Whal I 111ink when I hear hon-or stories Is, 'Thanll God I have Jodie where she is."' A parliamentary committee on day care currenUy making Its way around the country has found thal many parents are staunch supporters of home day care. IN NEIGHBORHOOD • " People pref'er day care to be in - their neighborhood· and in more familiar surroundings." says Shirley Martin, the Conservative MP for ~::;,''!,::: ~::: i~~Tj!;:::~t and will report to lhe House of Commons in November. "' And in other arus, such as rural communities, they see it as the best way to meet tbelt needs where no formal day carenlsts." • Noting thal lhe situation in Onla· rio la typical of lhe rest of Canada. Martin said she expects her group lo take a more far-ranging approach to the day-care issue than a recent federal task force beaded by sociologisl Katie Cooke. Last March, Cooke recomrilended a universal day-care system be established In lhe country. " I think a lot or people were scared off by the figures that were mentioned," said Martin, referring to an estimate in Cooke's report ol SIi billion for child care costs to all 1overnments. " We want to understand lhe various needs of parents and provide alternatives." Martin admits she doesn't kno-.· yet what slruelllre could be develo~ to screen home day-care provtders or how lhey would be encour aged to come forward and conduct lheirservices In theopen. But Baker isn'i sure any incen lives would be attractive enougl since "the bottom line is you're no· going to make a lol of moneyl pro vtdlng home day care. "You do it because you like kids otherwise you shouldn!I be doing i1 ataU. " °' � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Northwestern Ontario Day Care News, July 1986 Subject The topic of the resource Organizations Description An account of the resource Northwestern Ontario Day Care News July 1986. Includes information about the Federal Government Special Committee on Child Care hearings; City of Thunder Bay Child Care Advisory Committee; Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care Video Project; Provincial Day Care Policy Review; Red Lake Day Care news; Annual Conference and Lobby of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care; NWO Regional Forum. 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