The Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) produce a range of resources available for free download from their website at www.childcarecanada.org

The CRRU publications page includes a list of publications:

• Recently published (within the past two years)

• ECEC in Canada publications

• BRIEFing NOTES

• An Occasional Paper series

• Other Publications

• Quality by Design publications

• A selection of videos

Their Online Video & Audio web page at https://childcarecanada.org/documents/video includes resources produced as recently as March 5, 2024, including, for example:

• Women, business and the law 2024: Breaking down barriers to achieve gender equality

• Is $10 daycare in trouble?

• Childcare spots getting harder to find, research shows

• The Future of Work podcast: Should we treat the care economy as an investment or a cost?

• Lessons from the massive daycare E. Coli outbreak in Calgary

• The gaps in parental leave in Canada

• Learning across borders: What can Canada learn from Danish early childhood education and care?

• Why investors are flocking to the daycare business

The Resources webpage at https://childcarecanada.org/resources provides quick links to resources throughout the site, such as:

• Online Document Catalogue: Search the Online Document Catalogue for research, policy and practice documents, as well as news articles and media related to ECEC in Canada and around the world.

• Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2021: A comprehensive collection of cross-Canada, provincial/territorial and national longitudinal data from 1992 to 2021.

• Canada-wide early learning and child care agreements: The ISSUE file provides information on the federal budget ELEC commitments, Canada-wide developments and each province’s/territory’s agreements as announcements are made and policy and advocacy tools are developed.

• Finding Quality Child Care: A practical guide for Canadian families to navigate and understand the ‘ins and outs’ of child care in Canada.

• Weekly News: subscribe to receive a weekly newsletter of updates on the CRRU website.

• Blog: CRRU’s blog, Child Care Canada Now, features views and opinions, reactions and actions by the CRRU team and guest authors on topical ECEC issues.

• Events: Find conferences, meetings, campaigns, key events and webinars of interest to the ECEC, social policy and social justice community.

• Quality by Design: CRRU’s Quality by Design project explores the elements of high quality ECEC systems in depth.