Celebrating a Decade of Advocacy… and moving on
May 2010
At the end of 2009, the BC Child Care Advocacy Forum honoured and
celebrated a decade of working together to advance a progressive child
care vision and agenda.
We agreed at the beginning - as we do today - that BC and Canada need
a publicly funded child care system that entitles all children access
to quality child care. We agreed this system must honour and respect
diversity; must provide families with real choices; and must provide
caregivers with wages, benefits and working conditions they deserve.
2009 was our final year of funding from the Vancouver Foundation. We
would like to bring closure to our work, celebrate an important era in
BC child care advocacy and put our on-going commitment to advocacy to
work where it can continue to make a difference.
We believe that First Call's Early Childhood Development (ECD)
Roundtable best reflects the spirit and vision of the Advocacy Forum.
We agree it makes most sense for the Forum's member organizations to
devote whatever time and resources they can to the Roundtable and to
ensure that child care remains a priority at that table. And, we have
contributed the Forum's remaining resources to support First Call and
the ECD Roundtable to carry on the work.
For more information, download Celebrating a Decade of Advocacy… and moving on
We thank everyone for your support and promise that we will keep at it
until BC has the child care system our children, families and
communities need and deserve!
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