We'll have better daycare when we fund it properly
Vancouver Sun
June 26, 2008
Editorial By: Judi Malcolm, Campbell River

Your "Care & Attention" special was a thorough but fairly one-sided report depicting child care centres as dangerous places to leave children. Child care professionals have been asking for years to upgrade the minimum standards outlined by the Community Care and Assisted Living Act and Child Care Licensing regulations. Unfortunately, that would drive already expensive child care fees through the roof.

This is an under-resourced, undervalued, problem-ridden service, and it's supported off of the backs of the early childhood educators who work within it.

We all need to talk loudly and often to the politicians to keep child care issues a priority.