Have your say about child care
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences and helping us improve child care services in Peel.
From February to early April 2024, we reached out to families to get your thoughts on child care.
Whether you completed a survey, attended an online focus group, or dropped in to one of our in-person pop-up locations, your feedback is helping us learn what's important to families in our community.
What's next
Spring 2024
- Complete community consultations.
- Review the feedback from families.
- Confirm findings.
Summer 2024
- Draft and approve the new system-wide service plan.
Fall/Winter 2024
- Launch the 2025-2030 service system plan.
- Report to Council.
Why we're doing this
Peel Region manages the early years child care system in Peel and is responsible for making sure that all families have access to high-quality, affordable services.
Every 5 years the Ministry of Education requires Peel Region to develop a new system-wide service plan for early years and child care services in our region. This plan outlines priorities for continuous growth while meeting the changing needs of children and families. Learn about our 2019 to 2025 road map for early years and child care.
With lower fees offered through the new Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Plan, we need to create more child care spaces to meet the increasing demand from families. As we plan for this new growth, diversity and inclusion are a top priority.
To shape the new early years and child care plan for 2025-2030, we need to hear from Peel’s diverse families. Your feedback along with existing data will help us learn what families think about:
- Quality, inclusion, and belonging in Peel's underserved geographic regions and under-represented populations. These include Indigenous, Black, South Asian, other racialized, rural, 2SLGBTQ+ and low-income families.
- Existing barriers to accessing early learning and child care services.
- Affordability and the impact of the new child care plan to deliver $10-a-day child care.
- The impact of accessing child care subsidies to help pay for licensed child care.
- The changing needs and expectations for before and after school programs.
- Licensed home child care.
- Peel Inclusion Resource Services (PIRS) and special needs resources.
- The need for flexible child care options such as nights or weekends.
