Projects & Publications

Projects

This information was last updated on February 1, 2013 prior to the CCHRSC’s dissolution. For more information, please see the message from the Board. 

Our projects produced research and developed strategies and tools to meet the needs of the child care workforce and achieve related goals. Click on the titles of our projects for more information.

Supporting Employers in the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector (2009)

This project ran from June 2007 to February 2009 and focused on:

Career Promotions & Recruitment Strategy (2007)

The Career Promotions & Recruitment Strategy project ran from February 2006 to January 2007. The project focused on creating a strategy designed to address the sector’s recruitment and retention challenge, specifically:

A Training Strategy for the ECEC Sector in Canada (2007)

Building on the need for a consistent approach to child care training as identified in the Working for Change project (2004) this project focused on:

Occupational Standards For Child Care Administrators (2006)

This project ran from August 2004 to August 2006 and led to the creation of the first set of Occupational Standards for Child Care Administrators.

Working for Change: Canada's Child Care Workforce (2004)

This project updated the findings of the only Canada-wide sector study on ECEC. Building on findings from the 1998 report “Our Child Care Workforce” this project focused on:

Child Care Workplaces that Work

Child care organizations are complex. Early childhood educators form collaborative partnerships with children’s families that honour their role as the child’s primary caregiver, respect their parenting practices, and provide meaningful opportunities for families to determine their children’s early learning and care experiences.

Out-of-country ECE qualifications - Prince Edward Island

 

Applying for a higher certification level - Nova Scotia

 

Health & Safety

Occupational health and safety legislation regulates the standards of workplace health and safety with the aim to prevent workplace accidents, injuries and diseases, and outlines consequences for breaches of those standards. It details responsibilities of employers, supervisors and employees.

Salary Surveys

Surveys collecting information about employee compensation, including salary and benefits, are commonly called salary surveys. Salary surveys are conducted with numerous employers to determine pay levels for specific job categories and are generally conducted either by region, sector or job classification for the purposes of comparability.

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