2008 » Provincial/Regional Publications
[Canadian & International publications listed below]
Precarious & Vulnerable: Lone Mothers on Income Assistance
Penny Gurstein and Michael Goldberg, SPARC
December 2008
A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC
The Time is Now – A summary / Full report
CCPA BC
December 2008
Increased Collaboration, Accountability Essential in Tough Economic Times
2008 Progress Report on the Implementation of the Recommendations of the BC Children and Youth Review (“Hughes Review”)
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, BC’s Representative for Children and Youth
December 2008
Update: System of Services for Children and Youth with Special Needs
Representative for Children and Youth
November 26, 2008
2008 Child Poverty Report Card
First Call and SPARC BC
November 2008
Report on the Budget 2009 Consultations
BC Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services
November 2008
Vital Signs: Victoria 2008
Victoria Foundation
October 2008
An Overview of Initiatives Affecting Early Childhood Development
First Call
September 2008
Working for a Living Wage: Ensuring Paid Work Meets Basic Family Needs in Vancouver and Victoria – 2008
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition, and the Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria
September 2008
Building on our Strengths: A Child Care Plan for Victoria
Victoria Regional Child Care Council in Collaboration with Partners in Learning and Advocacy for Young Children (PLAY)
September 2008
Annual Report: B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth
B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth
September 2008
All-day Kindergarten delayed; all-day Kindergarten denied
Noel Heron, Teacher Magazine
September 2008
BC School Trustees’ Association Submission to the Early Childhood Learning Agency
July 2008
Living on Welfare in BC: Experiences of Longer-Term “Expected to Work” Recipients
CCPA BC
April 2008
Early Childhood Development in BC: First Call’s Framework for Action
First Call BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition
2008 (Revised)
Exploring recruitment and retention issues for BC’s community social service sector employers
Rebecca Signer, Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia
March 2008
Monitoring Brief System of Services for Children and Youth with Special Needs
Representative for Children and Youth
February 2008
Crisis in Early Childhood Workforce [ Survey / Media Release ]
First Call BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition
January 2008
The Politics of Child Care
VESTA – newsletter
January 2008
2008 » Canadian Publications
The Forgotten Fundamentals
Ken Battle, Sherri Torjman and Michael Mendelson, Caledon Institute
December 2008
Ready for leadership: Canadians’ perceptions of poverty
Trish Hennessy and Armine Yalnizyan, CCPA
October 2008
Poverty Policy
Sherri Torjman, The Caledon Institute of Social Policy
October 2008
New Evidence about Child Care in Canada: Use Patterns, Affordability, and Quality
Gordon Cleveland, Barry Forer, Douglas Hyatt, Christa Japel and Michael Krashinsky, Institute for Research on Public Policy
October 2008
Growing Up In North America: The Economic Well-Being of Children in Canada, the United States, and Mexico
Canadian Council on Social Development, Red por los Derechos de la Infancia en México (The Children’s Rights Network in Mexico), and the Annie E. Casey Foundation
September 2008
Women’s Inequality in Canada
[Page 73 – 81: “Lack of adequate child care”]
The Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) – Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) report
September 2008
Promoting Equity and Dignity for Aboriginal Children in Canada
Jessica Ball, Institute for Research on Public Policy
June 2008
Reducing Work–Life Conflict: What Works? What Doesn’t? [ Summary report ]
Dr. Chris Higgins, Dr. Linda Duxbury, Sean Lyons
June 2008
Child Care Space Statistics 2007
Childcare Resource and Research Unit
April 2008
Foreign Investment in the Child Care Sector: Canada’s International Trade Obligations
Steven Shrybman
February 2008
Federal Budget 2008 and CCPA Alternative Budget
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives & Other responses
February 2008
2008 » International Publications
The Child Care Transition – UNICEF Report Card on Early Childhood Education and Care in Economically Advanced Countries
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
December 2008
UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Considers Report of Canada
October 2008
Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries [Country Note: Canada]
OECD
October 2008
Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health
Commission on Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization
2008