SOC 504 Lecture 5: Soc 504 Lecture 5
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Early childhood education and care in canada includes all of the arrangements that provide education and care for early childhood, which usually describes children under the age of 6. But, depending on what is being examined, early childhood can include children up to the age of 12. Canada does not have a national child care program. Policies and regulations are split between federal and provincial/territorial jurisdictions. This means that there is a great deal of variation. When it comes to early childhood development programs, canada scores low in comparison to other organisation for economic co-operation and development (oecd) countries. By comparison, canada spends less of its gross domestic product (gdp) on early childhood care and has lower rates of enrolment in preschool education (cool, 2007). A 2004 study by the oecd, starting strong ii" found that although canada has one of the highest female labour force participation rates in the world (76. 6% for women aged 24-34),
