What did the BC government say about child care and early childhood development in 2008?

Accessibility (Conroy) 10108 (Cubberley) 9876 (Karagianis) 9882, 10183 (Kwan) 12057-8 (Macdonald) 9706, 13239 (Trevena) 9758, 9912-3, 11943-4, 12603, 12739
Accessibility, impact on labour market (Trevena) 10051
Before- and after-school care programs See Out-of-school care programs under Education
B.C. Liberal Party government position (Bloy) 10335-6 (Cantelon) 10334
Child care in workplace, WorkLife B.C. award recipients (Mayencourt) 11052
Child care in workplace, WorkLife B.C. initiative (Reid) 12343-4 (Trevena) 12343-4
Child care providers
corporations See also private operators under this subheading
(Cantelon) 10334 (Simpson, S.) 10331-2 (Trevena) 10329-31
corporations and non-profit operators (Conroy) 10336-7 (Routley) 10333-4
private operators (Reid) 12335 (Roddick) 10331 (Trevena) 12334-5
providers (Bloy) 10335-6
providers' children in care (Reid) 12342 (Trevena) 12341-2
Child care resource and referral programs
funding (Reid) 9937
Co-location See Programs and services for children and families, service delivery, co-located services under Children; Spaces in schools and social housing developments below under this main heading
Corporate child care providers See Child care providers above under this main heading
Early childhood development See Children – Early childhood development
Funding (Lali) 9949 (Reid) 9935-6, 12333-9, 12344 (Trevena) 10050-1, 12333-9
Funding, capital funding grant adjudication (Reid) 12334 (Trevena) 12334
Funding, petition tabled (Lee) 10640
Government action (Macdonald) 10035 (Trevena) 9914
Government funding and support (Bloy) 11924 (Chudnovsky) 11924 (Reid) 9935-6 (Roddick) 10331
Government policy (Cubberley) 9875
Government policy, early-years strategy (Reid) 9935
NDP position (Bloy) 10335-6 (Cantelon) 10334
Non-profit child care providers See Child care providers above under this main heading
Out-of-school care programs See Education
Private child care providers See Child care providers above under this main heading
Range of services (Chudnovsky) 11924
Role (Bloy) 12184
Social value of public system (Krog) 10334-5
Spaces
cost per space (Reid) 12337 (Trevena) 12337
new spaces (Reid) 9935-6, 9938, 12333-7, 12603-4, 12739 (Trevena) 12333-7
spaces in communities and regions (Reid) 12335, 12337 (Trevena) 12335
spaces in schools and social housing developments (Reid) 12334, 12336-7 (Trevena) 12336-7
Subsidy, eligibility (Christensen) 10094 (Reid) 9936
Subsidy, families receiving subsidy (Reid) 12345 (Trevena) 12345
Supported care for special needs children (Reid) 9936-7
System
comparison with systems elsewhere See also particular countries
(Conroy) 10336-7 (Krog) 10335 (Routley) 10333
need for public system in B.C. (Trevena) 10051, 10330-1
standards in B.C. (Bond) 11431 (Trevena) 11430
Workers See also Early childhood educators under Children – Early childhood development
(Cantelon) 9913 (Trevena) 9914
Workers, recruitment and retention (Trevena) 10050

Children – Early childhood development

Books for B.C. Babies initiative (Bloy) 11923
Early childhood educators
financial assistance for advanced education (Coell) 10935 (Fleming) 10935 (Reid) 9937
financial assistance for advanced education and professional development (Reid) 12338-40 (Trevena) 12338-40
financial incentives for return to workforce (Reid) 12338, 12340-1 (Trevena) 12340-1
number (Reid) 12337 (Trevena) 12337
professional development and conferences (Reid) 9937
recognition of service (Reid) 12341 (Trevena) 12341
recruitment and training (Reid) 9937-8, 12338-41 (Trevena) 12338-41
supply (Bond) 11431 (Cubberley) 11431 (Trevena) 11431
wages (Reid) 12341 (Trevena) 12341
Early learning agency (Bond) 11426-7, 11431, 11433 (Trevena) 9758, 11426-7
Early learning and child care
government funding and initiatives (Mayencourt) 10332-3
government initiatives (Cantelon) 9913-4
role in education system (Simpson, S.) 10331-2
Early learning and literacy
government action (Throne speech) 9628
government funding and initiatives (Bloy) 11923-4
government initiatives (Christensen) 9752-3 (Cubberley) 9909-10 (Hayer) 9674-5 (Polak) 9908-9
school programs for three- and four-year-olds (Bloy) 9779 (Bond) 9963, 11428-33 (Conroy) 10108 (Cubberley) 9875-6, 11429-30 (Reid) 9938-9 (Trevena) 11430, 11433
system, funding See Funding for early childhood system under Education – Funding
Early learning framework (Bond) 11427-8, 11431 (Cubberley) 11427
Impact of poverty on children's development (Simons) 9824-5
Learning through play (Bond) 11428-9 (Cubberley) 11428
Programs and services, Success by 6 program (Reid) 9938
School readiness (Cubberley) 11468-9
StrongStart B.C.
centres in schools, inclusion of children in school capacity numbers (Bond) 11424-6 (Cubberley) 11425 (Trevena) 11424-5
funding (Bond) 11423-4 (Coons) 13296, 13298 (Trevena) 11423-4, 11433
initiative (Bennett) 9947 (Bloy) 10047, 11923 (Bond) 11356, 11423, 11428, 11431 (Cantelon) 9643-4 (Chudnovsky) 11924 (Conroy) 10108 (McIntyre) 9647-8 (MacKay) 9761(Nuraney) 10038-9 (Polak) 9654 (Reid) 9939 (Taylor) 9801 (Thorpe) 9905, 13247 (Throne speech) 9628 (Trevena) 10051, 11422-3
new early learning centres (Black) 9885 (Bond) 9963 (Lee) 10164
number of participants (Bond) 11426 (Trevena) 11426
tracking of participants (Bond) 11471
transportation support (Bond) 11423-4, 11578