Alternative courses of action

The Canadian Committee on Learning Opportunities for Women will need to discuss all the implications and ramifications involved in supporting or not supporting various day care issues and in developing a plan for committee action and/or policy. In particular, the following issues seem most contentious:

  • day care as a convenience service to parents and/or as a quality of care service to children.

  • day care as a service to low-income or single mothers and/or as a service to middle or upper-income or married mothers.

  • training and supervision of day care personnel for both group and family care services.

  • issues related to control, liability, legal responsibility, etc. which accrue to the service provider and to the service user.

  • issues related to who funds what, for what purposes, and with what potential outcomes.

  • administrative concerns such as flexibility in hours, location, transportation, costs, parental involvement, control of programs, etc.

  • need for coordination of effort among day care service providers, education service providers, work providers, and user groups.

CCLOW might then want to prepare a series of policy statements which deal with
either or all of:

  1. general statements related to the process by which day care issues are resolved in local educational institutions and agencies.

  2. general statements related to the process by which local groups could affect the development and implementation of day care policy.

  3. general statements related to the function CCLOW could serve in the process of resolving day care issues in relation to both governmental agencies and educational agencies.

  4. specific statements related to specific issues involved.

An example of (a) might be: CCLOW could recommend that local educational institutions set up a coordinating committee which would include representatives of all constituent and interest groups and community agencies and which would serve as a planning and advisory committee to the governing board of the educational institution.


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