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February 7th, 2007 |
First Call’s ECD Roundtable has been engaged in
ongoing correspondence with the provincial government in response to child
care cuts at the beginning of 2007. The Roundtable is advocating for a renewed
commitment to and funding for child care, as well as uncovering the details
and impacts of one-time only grants awarded to a number of organizations.
View this correspondence below, and contact our office if you’d like
more information.
January 2008: Response from the Assistant
Deputy Minister of Children and Family Development on one-time only
expenditures.
January 2008: Letter to BC's Representative for Children and Youth requesting assistance in obtaining the full reporting of one-time only spending of child care dollars.
January 2008: Letter to the Comptroller General regarding federal spending on transfers to provinces and territories related to the Bilateral Agreements on Early Learning and Child Care.
December 2007: First Call wrote to the Deputy Minister of Children and Family Development to comment on the Ministry's Good Practice Action Plan.
September 2007: Letter
to Executive Financial Officer of MCFD regarding the accounting of one-time
only grants and the identification of need for enhancements to existing
services.
September 2007: Response
from Comptroller General on federal transfers.
September 2007: Letter
to Comptroller General regarding federal transfers and government-wide
financial policies and procedures.
June 2007: Letter
to the Representative for Children and Youth listing early childhood
development indicators
and targets to monitor.
June 2007: Letter
to the Comptroller General regarding the one-time only funding grants.
Read the Hansard
Excerpts. First Call is tracking one-time
only funding here.
May 2007: Auditor
General and Comptroller
General's response to the letter sent to the Minister of Finance in
March.
March 2007: Letter
to Premier Gordon Campbell about reduced child care funding and Minister
Reid's response.
March 2007: Letter
to Carole Taylor, Minister of Finance on the "treatment of federal
funds transferred for early learning and child care".
March 2007: Letter
to the Representative for Children and Youth on "the impact of
cuts to child care".
