An Overview of Child Care in BC Highlights

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• An Overview of Child Care in BC - Highlights
• 2008 Annual Conference of the Early Childhood
  Educators of BC
• and the
• Canadian Child Care Federation
• Presented by
• Barry Forer
• Jacqui Boonstra
• Lynell Anderson
• May 31, 2008

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Overall Outline of Presentation

• Early Learning and Child Care Research Unit
  (ELCCRU) at the Human Early Learning Partnership
• Who we are
• Our purpose
• Aspects of centre-based child care related to
  quality and stability, based on Child Care
  Operating Fund data
• Staff education, wages, fees, auspice, subsidized
  children
• Socio-Economic Status (SES) models of early
  development
• Associations between child care services and
  early development
• Policy implications (discussed throughout)

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Who We Are

• Dr. Hillel Goelman
• Dr. Paul Kershaw
• Lynell Anderson
• Barry Forer
• Jacqui Boonstra

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ELCCRUs Purpose

• Conduct high quality research and analyses on the
  intersection of child care and early development
• Produce policy-relevant analyses of early
  learning and child care in BC and Canada
• Increase our understanding of developmentally
  at-risk children and the relationships between
  parental and non-parental child care, family,
  neighbourhood and communities in which at-risk
  and non-risk children live.

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Licensed Group Child Care Facilities (based on
MOH and CCOF Data), 2005/06 by Region
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Number of children enrolled, by type of program,
spring 2005
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Number of children enrolled, by type of program,
1993 to 2005
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Number of children enrolled per 1000, by type of
program, 1993 to 2005
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Aboriginal children enrolled per facility
2005/06, by Health Authority
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Child Care Facilities by Service Type and
Auspice, 2005/06
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Percentage of Group Child Care Facilities that
are Non-Profit, 1993 to 2005
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Number of children per program receiving child
care subsidy 2005/06, by Health Authority
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Mean number of children per program receiving
child care subsidy, by auspice, 2005
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Mean number of children per program receiving
child care subsidy, by auspice, 1997 to 2005
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Mean number of children per program receiving
child care subsidy, by auspice, 1997 to 2005
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Facilities policies on subsidized parents paying
the difference between subsidy and fees 2005/06,
by Health Authority
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Number of special needs children per facility
2005/06, by auspice
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Mean Monthly fees 2005, by Group Service Type
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Mean full-time monthly fees 2005/06, by group
service type and auspice
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Mean Monthly fees 1993 to 2005, by Group Service
Type
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Mean annual budget allocations 2005/06, by
Health Authority
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Mean annual budget allocations 2005/06, by auspice
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Mean hourly wage for full-time staff 2005, by
type of program and auspice
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Mean hourly wage for full-time staff 2005/06, by
type of program and Health Authority
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Number of practicum students per year, by auspice
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Number of practicum students per year, by Health
Authority
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Highest ECE training 2005/06, by type of program
and auspice
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Staff wage/education groups, by auspice
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Staff wage/education groups, by Health Authority
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Overview

• Background
• Information Sources
• Community Context
• Preliminary Findings
• Licensed Child Care Services across BC
  Communities
• Licensed Child Care Capacity and Early
  Development
• Child Care Subsidy Relationships with Early
  Development

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Background Information Sources

• Where does the child care data come from?
• Administrative Sources (2004/05)
• MCFD - Child Care Operating Fund
• MCFD - Child Care Subsidy
• Ministry of Health Community Care Facilities
  Licensing
• Canada Census
• Parental child care patterns
• Where does the early development data come from?
• HELP
• Early Development Instrument (EDI)

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Early Development Instrument (EDI)
healthy, independent
tell a story, communicate with others
plays, shares, self-confident
Interested in reading and writing, recognize
numbers and shapes
helps others, patient, not aggressive
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In what context are the data analyzed?
Background Community Context

• HELPs 475 customized neighbourhood communities
  linked with the various school districts across
  BC

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Do all 475 communities have child care services
for children under age 6?
Preliminary Findings Child Care Services across
BC communities

• 21 communities - no licensed child care
  services
• 106 communities - no group child care services
• 51 communities - no licensed family child care
  services,
• Note that, for the purposes of this analysis,
  licensed child care services do not include
  part-time, part-day preschool programs

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Range of Child Care Service Capacity per 100
Children Under Age 6, Across Communities
Preliminary Findings Child Care Services across
BC communities
DNI preschool
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Do all 475 communities have child care services
that participated in 2004/05 CCOF-Funding?
Preliminary Findings Child Care Services across
BC communities

• 137 communities - no group facilities
  participated
• 79 communities - no family facilities
  participated

DNI preschool
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Range of Annual Child Care Subsidy Dollars per
Child Under Age 6 Across Communities
Preliminary Findings Child Care Services across
BC communities
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What is the relationship between licensed child
care capacity, poverty and childrens
vulnerability, as measured by the EDI?
Preliminary Findings Licensed Child Care
Capacity and Child Development
Explaining Childrens Vulnerability
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