Child Care Now Nova Scotia

Child Care Now Nova Scotia Advocating for a universal, high-quality, affordable, accessible, and non-profit child care system!

03/10/2026

Week of Cuts – Day 1

The provincial budget cuts $592,000 from continuing education for Early Childhood Educators.

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This funding helps educators upgrade their skills, complete training, and strengthen the quality of care in early learning programs.

What this means for families:
• Fewer opportunities for educators to build new skills
• Harder to retain experienced educators in the field
• More pressure on an already stretched child care workforce

Early Childhood Educators are the foundation of our child care system.
Cutting their training makes it harder to build the high-quality, affordable child care Nova Scotia families were promised.

02/25/2026

You cannot build a universal $10/day system on unstable foundations.

Families and operators deserve clarity on how this budget delivers on the promise.

02/13/2026

Families in Nova Scotia still can’t find or afford child care.

More spaces don’t mean much if fees stay high and educators are underpaid. $10-a-day child care needs real action.

Child Care Now Nova Scotia is pushing for a system that works for families and educators.

02/03/2026

Families in Nova Scotia were promised a child care system they could rely on.

Fees have gone down — but behind the scenes educators are stretched thin, centres are covering rising costs, and funding commitments haven’t kept pace.

A strong child care system must be:
✨ Accessible
✨ Affordable
✨ High-quality
✨ Publicly funded & managed

Child care supports children, families, and entire communities. It needs stable public investment to succeed.

12/22/2025

This season, we’re reminded that children are what unite us. Across our differences, caring for children brings us together. May we take a moment to see the world with the wonder of a child—curious, hopeful, and full of possibility.

12/15/2025

As families light the menorah and celebrate resilience, care, and community, we’re reminded that every child deserves to grow up supported — and every family deserves access to affordable, high-quality child care.

This season of light is a powerful reminder of what’s possible when we invest in care, dignity, and a better future for all.

Nova Scotia’s child care system is at a crossroads.A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Nova ...
12/10/2025

Nova Scotia’s child care system is at a crossroads.

A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Nova Scotia, co-authored with Child Care Now Nova Scotia, finds that while our province has met its federal child care agreement targets on paper, families, educators, and communities are still being left behind.
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🔍 The report shows:
• Current funding doesn’t cover the real cost of quality care.
• Some families are still paying $5,000–$8,000 a year for child care.
• Only about 30% of communities have enough regulated spaces to meet the target of serving 59% of children.
• Early Childhood Educators continue to face low wages, pay gaps, and limited training supports, making it hard to recruit and retain the workforce children depend on.
• Weak accountability rules mean public dollars can still fuel the growth of lower-quality, for-profit chains, including a recent sale of 11 centres (1,700+ spaces) to a multinational corporation.

The roadmap is clear:
✔ treat early learning and child care as a public good, not a patchwork market
✔ invest in public and non-profit expansion, not corporate chains
✔ ensure decent wages and good working conditions for ECEs – because their working conditions are children’s learning conditions
✔ build a system that is universal, affordable, accessible, high-quality, inclusive, and accountable

If we follow the evidence, Nova Scotia can build a child care system that works for children, families, educators, and the broader economy for generations to come. If we take detours, we risk losing this historic opportunity.
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📘 Read the full report, The Roadmap is Clear, Detours are Risky: Nova Scotia’s Child Care System at a Crossroads, here:
👉 https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/the-roadmap-is-clear-detours-are-risky-nova-scotias-child-care-system-at-a-crossroads/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-roadmap-is-clear-detours-are-risky-nova-scotias-child-care-system-at-a-crossroads

💬 What are you seeing in your community – long waitlists, high fees, staff turnover? Tell us in the comments or send us a message. Your stories matter.

11/27/2025

Just a reminder that our Zoom event is happening tonight!

🗓 Thursday, November 27, 2025
⏰ 6:30 PM (Halifax)

Please register in advance using the link below:

🔗 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/BELGhoz2QnOyQuGIzBLkYw

Once you register, you’ll receive a confirmation email with everything you need to join.

We look forward to seeing you there.

11/26/2025

TOMORROW.
If you’re an Early Childhood Educator in Nova Scotia, your experience matters — and we want to hear it directly from you.

This system only exists because of the people who show up every single day with heart, skill, and commitment.
But too often, you’re asked to adapt without being asked what you need.

Tomorrow evening we’re holding space for ECEs to share their voices, frustrations, ideas, and hopes.
No presentations. No government talking points. Just your lived experience — and a community that understands it.

🗓️ Thursday • November 27
🕖 7–8 PM
📍 Zoom —
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/BELGhoz2QnOyQuGIzBLkYw

This system only exists because of the people who show up every single day with heart, skill, and commitment.
But too often, you’re asked to adapt without being asked what you need.

Register now — because your voice deserves the microphone

Day 2 of the Child Care for All Summit 2.0 wrapped up today — and it was powerful.This morning, I joined a small delegat...
11/25/2025

Day 2 of the Child Care for All Summit 2.0 wrapped up today — and it was powerful.

This morning, I joined a small delegation to meet with Alana Powell, Senior Advisor to Minister Patty Hajdu (Jobs and Families). Our conversation was meaningful, informed, and grounded in the realities facing early learning and child-care workers, families, and advocates across Canada.

Alana brings deep experience to this role — from her years as Executive Director of the Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario, to her work on the National Advisory Council on Early Learning and Child Care, to her career in education at George Brown College. It was encouraging to speak with someone who understands the sector from multiple angles and is committed to strengthening it.

The day continued with more connection and learning — including the chance to speak one-on-one with Martha Friendly and Minister Leslie Church, Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretaries of State for Labour, for Seniors, and for Children and Youth, and to the Minister of Jobs and Families (Persons with Disabilities)

Each conversation left me feeling even more hopeful — not because the challenges are small, but because the movement is growing, coordinated, and determined.

I’m leaving Ottawa grateful, energized, and even more committed to building an accessible, inclusive, high-quality, publicly funded child-care system for everyone.

Onward. 💛

Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we pause and acknowledge a reality in Nov...
11/25/2025

Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we pause and acknowledge a reality in Nova Scotia that cannot be ignored.
Our province has one of the highest rates of intimate partner violence in Canada. These numbers represent real people — educators, parents, neighbours, and children.

Violence doesn’t stay behind closed doors. It impacts mental health, family stability, early learning, and the wellbeing of entire communities.

Early learning and child care spaces are often the first places where children feel safe, seen, and supported. Educators aren’t just caregivers — they are frontline witnesses to the effects of violence, trauma, and stress.

Today, we recommit to a vision of care rooted in dignity, safety, respect, and justice.

Because every child deserves safety.
Every family deserves security.
Every educator deserves protection.

Let’s work together to erase violence — everywhere.

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