In order to find approximately 750 million dollars in savings for next years budget, Mayor Rob Ford hired a consulting firm to examine the cities core services for money saving opportunities.
The following cuts to children’s services are being suggested in
KPMG’s Core Service Review:
- cuts to over 2,000 child care fee subsidies
- cuts to per diem rates paid to child care for city subsidies
- cuts to grants that keep fee’s lower
- cuts to quality inspections
- cuts funding for family resource programs
- divesting 57 municipal child care centres to the private sector
This would mean:
- Child care fees increasing substantially all across Toronto
- A major drop in the quality of child care services
- Longer waiting lists for child care spots/centres being shut down
- Losing many services that support families
Help us to Take Action:
Print and share this flyer: Parent Call For Action- August 2011
Posted in Core Service Review 2011, News.
Tagged with Budget, Children's Services, City of Toronto, Core Service Review, cuts.
By admin
– August 3, 2011
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford voted at the end of a 20-hour executive committee meeting to reject some proposed cuts and to put off decisions on almost all of the others to the 2012 budget process, which begins in November and ends in mid-January.
A proposal to phase out 2,000 subsidized daycare spaces was pulled by the committee while the city lobbies the province and the federal government for more funding; library closings were also taken off the table; arts and culture grants and funding for other community partnerships was handed off to the city manager for further study, with a report due in November. Continued…
Posted in Core Service Review 2011, News.
Tagged with Budget, City of Toronto, Core Service Review, cuts.
By admin
– September 20, 2011
The children of Toronto had nothing to do with this city’s budget woes but they could end up paying a steep price.
An article in the Saturday edition of The Toronto Star by Kerry McCuaig sends a really poignant message to our City Councillors:
Is council really prepared to send us back to those dark days?
Those dark days are in reference to a city that did not support child care and had “stricter public oversight of hot dog street vendors”.
This is a great article to read if you want to be better informed on the benefits to our economy when we publicly invest in child care. This is highly recommended reading!
Posted in Core Service Review 2011, News.
Tagged with Budget, Children's Services, City of Toronto, Core Service Review, cuts.
By admin
– August 3, 2011
By Josh Matlow
City Hall Diary
The Toronto Star
The prospect of cuts to virtually every city service mobilized hundreds of concerned Toronto residents last week to make deputations to eight council committees considering the mayor’s core service review. Continued…
Posted in Core Service Review 2011, News.
Tagged with CDRC, Children's Services, City of Toronto, Core Service Review, cuts.
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– July 25, 2011
Many cuts to child care services under consideration…
July 20: Community Development & Recreation Committee to make decisions of which cuts to present to Executive Committee.
July 21 – September 13: CDR sub-committee will host four public hearings. Dates and times to be announced. More information below.
September 14: Community Development & Recreation Committee to once again make decisions of which cuts to present to Executive Committee based on the sub-committees report.
September 19: Executive Committee to review Core Service recommendations Continued…
Posted in Core Service Review 2011, News.
Tagged with CDRC, Children's Services, City of Toronto, cuts, executive committee.
By admin
– July 19, 2011
As you may have gathered from the News last week – CUTS are being proposed in EVERY department of the City to save $750 million through our Core Services!
This is everything from snow removal. . .parks & rec . . . fire services . . . AND CHILD CARE ! Continued…
Posted in Core Service Review 2011, News.
Tagged with CDRC, Children's Services, City of Toronto, Core Service Review, cuts.
By admin
– July 18, 2011
The problem is that the profits will come out of the care our kids should be receiving
This is a great article from The Star that outlines opinions of a couple private run child care operators and the TCBCC on downloading our 57 municipally operated child care centres.
Losing subsidized daycare means not working for this parent
Another article in The Star explaining what subsidy cuts would mean for some parents. Continued…
Posted in Core Service Review 2011, News.
Tagged with Children's Services, City of Toronto, Core Service Review, cuts, Report.
By admin
– July 13, 2011
The winners of our 2011 Raffle in support of Toronto Child Care have all been drawn, and we have posted a list of all our winners here!
See the list by clicking here: WINNERS – RAFFLE 2011
Thank you to everyone who participated and to all our wonderful sponsors. We have additionally been contacting all winners by phone to confirm their mailing addresses so that their prizes can be sent to them. Congratulations to all our winners!
Posted in Toronto Child Care Raffle.
By admin
– June 22, 2011
The Toronto Coalition for Better Child Care
Child Care Raffle 2011
A fabulous fundraising opportunity for your program!
This is the perfect time to participate in an exciting joint fundraiser for child care programs, FRP’s, early years agencies, and the TCBCC! This will be our 15th consecutive year of collaborating with Toronto’s Early Learning & Child Care community to raise much needed funds for programs like yours and the important advocacy work of the TCBCC! Make sure that your program is a part of this exciting event! Great prizes include: A Weekend getaway at luxury resort & spa; Downtown Hotel packages; Fitness Club memberships; sports, restaurant, and theatre packages; exciting family entertainment; children’s books and CD’s; and more! Over 100 prizes in total! Full List of Prizes!
How does it work?
- The Toronto Coalition for Better Child Care handles all of the organizing, including obtaining all the great prizes; the lottery license application; the assembly, printing and distribution of tickets and promotional materials!
- The Child Care / Family Resource Program organizes their families to sell the tickets
- Tickets will be available at the TCBCC office towards the end of April. The closing date for tickets to be returned to the TCBCC is May 31st. So you have a full month to Sell! Sell! Sell!
- The draw will be held on June 17th 2011!
- The Toronto Coalition for Better Child Care and participating child care programs split the proceeds 50/50. It’s as simple as that!
If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact us.
Jane Mercer
Executive Co-ordinator
Toronto Coalition for Better Child Care
416 538 7630 x2
Posted in Toronto Child Care Raffle.
Tagged with Raffle.
By admin
– May 13, 2011
CITY BUDGET – including Children’s Services – the process starts immediately in the New Year
BUDGET PROCESS SCHEDULE: ( much shorter Budget process than ever before!)
*January 10: BUDGET LAUNCH – the TCBCC will monitor closely! and alert the community to ANY proposed Cuts
*January 11-14: Budget Committee meets to review all budgets – we will work to reach the members of that committee
*January 19-20: PUBLIC DEPUTATIONS will be heard (see details below)
*January 24 – February 28. the Budget Committee will review . . .wrap-up . . . and forward to the Executive Committee and Council)
Continued…
Posted in News, Winter Update 2010.
Tagged with Budget, Children's Services, City of Toronto.
By admin
– December 21, 2010
