Child Care Policy: Making the Connections is a project of the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada. The overall goal of this project is to advance the evidence-based development of quality child care services across Canada. The project is specifically designed to support communities to better understand and analyze child care investments under federal/provincial/territorial agreements, in order to promote effective and accountable public policy and funding that will advance high quality, universally accessible child care.

Lynell Anderson, Project Director, is a BC-based Certified General Accountant and child care advocate who has worked with community groups, governments, and businesses for more than 20 years. Lynell has developed specific expertise in child care finances and related policy development.

The project work will include compiling baseline public information on early learning and child care, developing an analysis template and providing other tools and resources to support capacity building within governments and across communities,* including popularized data reports in a comparable format wherever possible.

Making the Connections will look at child care policy and funding developments under the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Agreement, the Multilateral Framework Agreement and any new child care agreements reached between the federal, provincial and territorial governments. CCAAC executive director Monica Lysack, who was previously a member of the Federal Provincial Territorial working group and was involved in developing the reporting criteria for the ECD and Multilateral agreements, will also contribute her expertise to the project.

Making the Connections enhances CCAAC’s long history of working with groups across the country who are committed to child care. It will strengthen the organization’s work with federal, provincial and territorial governments at a critical time in the development of child care policy in Canada.

Introductory letter to provincial and territorial governments

August 2007 Open Letter to Ministers and FPT Staff Responsible for ECDLC Services

Project Reference Group

* This project does not include participation from Quebec.

Making the Conections is funded by the Government of Canada’s Social Development Partnerships Program. The opinions and interpretations in this publication are those of the CCAAC and do not necessarily reflect those of the Government of Canada.