Prevalence of child-care deserts has been a persistent issue across the country for years and will likely become worse as the national child-care program prompts increases demand for care.
Nearly half of Canadian children younger than kindergarten age live in child-care deserts, areas of the country where there is a serious shortage of available licensed child care, says a new report released on Tuesday.
“In this push toward building a national child-care system, there’s a lot of room for improvement in almost all provinces,” said David Macdonald, the CCPA’s senior economist and co-author of the report titled “Not Done Yet: $10 a Day Child Care Requires Addressing Canada’s Child Care Deserts.” “Now that the whole process is about expanding supply, this is a very good tool that can help in that,” said Martha Friendly, a CCPA research associate and co-author of the report.
Note: Children not yet attending kindergarten. Child-care deserts are areas of the country where at least three children compete for every licensed child-care spot. PEI and the territories have insufficient data to provide meaningful results.Proportion of children living in child-careOnt.Proportion of children in child-care80Note: Children not yet attending kindergarten. Child-care deserts are areas of the country where at least three children compete for every licensed child-care spot.
“In other areas, governments are very involved in the planning of these types of public services,” Mr. Macdonald said. “You don’t locate fire stations where you think some private fire provider thinks will be most profitable. You build fire stations equally distributed throughout the city. You build schools where the kids are and you manage that very publicly.”
Marni Flaherty, interim CEO of the Canadian Child Care Federation, a national non-profit, said that a publicly managed child-care system is necessary to address the inequalities of access that the report identifies.
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