Ontario to keep all schools closed through the end of June
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Ontario schools will remain closed to in-class instruction this academic year even as the government moves to restart parts of the economy, with plans to open daycares and day camps later in the summer.
Safety first when children return to school
A field trip diary in Lao Cai province by Rana Flowers, UNICEF Representative in Viet Nam
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Since early February, all schools across Viet Nam have been closed due to COVID-19, which...
COVID-19 fact sheet: Supporting licensed early learning and child care programs
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The Office of the Chief Public Health Officer (OCPHO) is recommending early learning and child care programs in the NWT stay open during the COVID-19 public health emergency wherever...
Operations: Licensing and inspections for early learning programs
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Early learning and child care programs that operate in school buildings across...
Can children transmit the new coronavirus to other people?
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Over the last few weeks, there have been conflicting news reports about the ability of children to transmit the new coronavirus.
This is in part understandable, as the knowledge we have about the new...
N.S. daycares, businesses prepare to reopen while waiting for government plan
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HALIFAX -- There may not be an official plan in place for reopening Nova Scotia’s economy just yet, but businesses like Tim Hortons are already getting ready for how they will operate post-pandemic.
"We...
Act now: Re-imagining early childhood education and care in Ireland
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The current pandemic has highlighted weaknesses in our social systems in general, and in Early Childhood Education and Care [ECEC] in particular. Closure of early childhood provision has left...
Opinion: Without child care, there’s no recovery
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I kept thinking about Australia as I read this essay about the coming wipeout of American child care providers.
“Child care providers operate on razor-thin margins with very little cash reserves,” write Lauren...
Lack of child care could keep some Sask. parents home during reopening plan
'Parents are not going to be able to participate in that reopening in the same way': expert
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As reactions pour in after the Saskatchewan government announced its five-phase plan for...
Child care restrictions preventing some from going back to work as economy reopens
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TORONTO -- As provinces begin the slow process of reopening the economy, a continued freeze on most child care services is shedding light on what experts describe as a child care crisis, one that is preventing...
