Affordable child care

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childcareOpen image in modalFamilies deserve quality, affordable child care they can rely on. Yet too many families pay more for their monthly child care than they do for housing – up to $2,000 a month.

In Ontario, families can pay between $40 and $60 a day for care. In big cities, the cost is even higher.

Too often, women have to miss work or give up good jobs because they cannot find reliable child care.

The cost of child care is often breaking the family budget. It’s time to rethink child care.

We need a federal child care plan that is affordable, will help families and allow more women to join the workforce and boost our economy.

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Child care

Parents need access to affordable, high-quality child care that meets the needs of their kids. Fees for child care have gone down across the country in recent years but they are still too high in too many places. Tens of thousands of families can’t find a daycare spot at all. To expand access to childcare governments and employers need to recruit more child care workers. This will only be possible with meaningful improvements to wages, benefits and working conditions for early childhood educators and support staff. CUPE fights for public, quality child care that is accessible to all families. We need child care for all.