Workforce Funding
Child Care & Early Years
The Child Care and Early Years Workforce Funding supports the retention and recruitment of a high-quality child care and early years workforce.
Key objectives of this funding are to:
- Sustain the existing child care and early years workforce to ensure a more stable and high-quality early years and child care system.
- Enhance access to opportunities for the workforce that promote retention and recruitment, including professional development, training, and qualification upgrade programs.
- Grow the number of qualified staff in the early years and child care workforce to increase access to high quality licensed child care for families.
- Attract and support the development of an increasingly diverse workforce to more effectively reflect the children and families accessing early years and child care programs.
PURPOSE
The Child Care and Early Years Workforce Strategy will build on, complement and enhance existing professional learning opportunities by allowing each early years and child care service provider to:
- plan and implement an Agency-Led Professional Learning day, or its equivalence, to support the unique professional development needs of early years and child care professionals working within the agency; and
- support and encourage Early Years and Child Care Professionals working within the agency to participate in additional Professional Learning opportunities that are available throughout the year.
ELIGIBLE STAFF/PROVIDERS
The funding is intended to support the following RECE, Non-RECE and Director Approved positions working with the early years and child care sector:
- Licensed Child Care: Program Staff* and Supervisors;
- Home Child Care: Home Child Care Providers, Home Visitors and Supervisors;
- EarlyON Child and Family Centres: Program Staff and Supervisors; and,
- Special Needs Resourcing/Inclusion Support Services: Resource Consultants and Supervisors
*Program staff includes Cooks and Call-in staff.
Please see guidelines below for additional information related to funding allocations and reimbursement.
APPEAL FORM
Licensed child care providers wanting to bring forward issues regarding Workforce funding decisions can complete the Service Provider Appeal Form below.
QUESTIONS
Questions about the Child Care and Early Years Workforce Funding should be addressed to:
District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board
Attention: Children’s Services Department, Finance and Data Coordination Team
Email: csfundingrequest@dnssab.ca