Sentences with phrase «universal quality early care»

It starts with universal quality early care and education available to all children.

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Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

Also important is universal access to high - quality, affordable, integrated early childhood education and care, especially in the year before full - time school and for developmentally vulnerable children and children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

BBA advocates providing universal access to health care for children, quality early - childhood education, and expanded access to extended learning opportunities, after school and during the summer.

There is strong evidence that shows that universal community - based systems of high quality early childhood education and care are part of the backbone of strong economies: ECEC has short - term, medium - term and long - term economic and social impacts on children, their parents, the labour force, local economies and the larger economy.

Administered by HRSA, in close partnership with the Administration for Children and Families, the Home Visiting Program is one part of President Obama's Early Learning Initiative that focuses on both high - quality infant and toddler care through Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships and universal Pre-K to improve the essential foundations in early childhood for future healthy development and well - bEarly Learning Initiative that focuses on both high - quality infant and toddler care through Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships and universal Pre-K to improve the essential foundations in early childhood for future healthy development and well - becare through Early Head Start - Child Care Partnerships and universal Pre-K to improve the essential foundations in early childhood for future healthy development and well - bEarly Head Start - Child Care Partnerships and universal Pre-K to improve the essential foundations in early childhood for future healthy development and well - beCare Partnerships and universal Pre-K to improve the essential foundations in early childhood for future healthy development and well - bearly childhood for future healthy development and well - being.

The Center for American Progress proposed one possible approach that would expand tax credits for child care and funding for voluntary universal preschool — calibrated to the cost of operating full - day, high - quality programs.46 These strategies would provide programs with higher levels of funding per child, which would serve to boost early educator salaries.

Promote child - friendly communities and advocate for universal access to a range of high - quality early childhood and school age care programs for all children (link to NQS Element 6.3.4).

Though not limited to this list, the team also focuses on the following issues: home visiting, access to affordable and high - quality child care, universal preschool, and supporting the early childhood workforce.