Ontario OVERVIEW

Ontario Ontario OVERVIEW In Ontario, early learning and child care (ELCC), which includes kindergarten, child care centres, before- and after-school child care and regulated family child care (termed home-based child care) is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education. [...] The Ministry of Education licenses and regulates child care programs, which include full-day child care centres, nursery schools, family child care, licensed before- and after-school child care and Extended Day, and Authorized Recreation and Skill Building (not licensed) before- and after-school programs. [...] Before- and after-school care centre spaces (licensed, regulated, approved, or authorized) Children in kindergarten (44 months – <7 years) 123,014 Children in Grades 1 – 6 187,689 Childcare Resource and Research Unit ECEC in Canada 2023 • ontario [ 61 ] Total before- and after-school care spaces 310,703 Regulated family child care Number of individual family child care Total centre spaces (childre. [...] Centre-based child care Total number of centres 5,776 Auspice Centre-based programs Number of centres providing a full-day program 3,501 Full- and part-day programs by auspice (2023) Number of centres providing a part-day (nursery school or preschool) program 848 Number of centres Number of centres providing a part-day For-profit 1,448 program (before- and after-school) for Non-profit and public 4. [...] Public spaces include 4,271 full-day and 1,981 Number of centres providing preschool-age before- and after-school spaces operated by municipalities, 136 full- care (30 months – 6 years) 3,681 day and 22,264 before- and after-school spaces operated by school Number of centres providing non-standard authorities, and 2,648 full-day and 680 before- and after-school spaces operated by Indigenous govern.