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What are the issues that bring people to this blog? Many!

Below is a list of the key words that people have searched for in recent weeks and months to arrive at this blog.  These are not listed in order of relevance, rather I have placed them in alphabetical order so as to see similar items grouped together where possible.  It is interesting to see the range of items that attract people to this site.

"Early Childhood Educators Loan Assistance Program "
"early intervention" speech
"Kellie Leitch" Globe and Mail
"Mary Polak"
"patti bacchus, chair"
"sadaf parvaiz"
"Victoria Sopik"
(http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/occup-travail/balancing_six-equilibre_six/index-eng.php
(vancouver) secure status
+kindergarten +ontario +"full day" +ece
$10 billion in education grants
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2009 call for proposals in Canada
2009 evaluation of parental leave
2009 statistics stay at home moms
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2010 full day kindergarten bc
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2010 ontario full time program kindergarten
2010 parental leave extended in canada
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4 year olds in school by 2010 (BC)
5 years old kindergarten will begin to be delivered in schools throughout British Columbia in Sept,
a healthy work environment
accessing early maternity leave benefits in bc
According to the recent HELP (UBC) report commissioned by the Business Council of BC, "BC has a six
actionplan.gc.ca
advantages of New Brunswick’s New Brunswick’s International Strategy
Alberta bc requirements for working at child care services
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alberta child care regulations
Alberta licensed day care balance sheet
all day kindergarten + bc
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Child care providers in Great Britain are being reduced due to economy

From Child Care Resource and Research Unit news item

The number of nurseries, childminders and out-of-school clubs has dropped dramatically since last summer, official figures reveal, as early years organisations blame the recession for driving providers out of business.

Ofsted statistics on the number of registered childcare providers and places in England show that there are now at least 8,181 fewer childcare providers than there were at the end of August.

At the end of December 2008 the number of group settings was down by 6,510 and there were 1,671 fewer childminders.

Figures for the end of March, due next month, are expected to reveal a bleaker picture.

Is this also happening in Canada?  Are child care centres in your community closing due to the economic crisis?

Olympics 2012 to have child care voucher scheme for employees

This came to me via my colleague Wendy Creelman this morning:

The ODA is looking to set up a childcare voucher / employee salary sacrifice scheme for its permanent staff base. The ODA would like to offer the benefits of such a scheme to staff from June 2009. We would require the supplier to provide an intermediary approach to co-ordinate the money transfer between Employer and Childcare provider. The supplier would need to offer a supportive service to staff/HR department to assist with role out of the scheme.