1. Ontario & Spain

2. Outline
 History Shuyi Cen
 Underlying Philosophy Yanjiao Deng
 Availability Nayanaben Joshi
 Accessibility Aiseosa Enehizena
 Types of Child Care Bhavanpreet
 Roles of ECE’s Allison

3. History
Spain Ontario VS Spain
• 1936 to 1975, fell behind other  1883, first kindergarten was set
countries up in Toronto
• 1972, Early Childhood Education
started to formalize and first  1981, Better Child Care is set up
regulation that call for a
universal, accessible, non-
• 80’s and 90’s, shortage of child care profit, high quality child care
facilities
system.
• 1990, the pre-6 school age period
was divided in two cycle’s  1990, Canada government
reduce contribution to the child
• The past 5years more child care care
centers increase
• 2006, make a law to regulate free  2006, new government
compulsory for age3-6 announces new plan “Universal
Child Care Benefit” to support
Canada families

4. Underlying philosophy
•Comparison of Early Child Care philosophy
Past Spain Ontario
1936 Thematic
lack of Child Care
(under Franco's rule) Montessori
Development High Scope
1975 (milestone)
children are important Behaviorist
individuals
(a democratic nation) Bank Street
Current Spain Ontario
Play SIMILAR
Example:
Family involvement SIMILAR Kid's House Nursery
school, Barcelona
•develop skills - games
Curriculum Coordination skills Children's cues
activities
Approaches Self-awareness (The Emergent •habits - engaging families
Group activities Curriculum)

5. Availability
Spain
Ontario
 Nursery for example maybe divided into the class
P.0 (Preschool for 0- 1 year olds) • both public and private
P.1 ( 1 - 2 year olds)
P.2 ( 2 - 3 year olds) • be flexible and provide choice
 Childcare services in pre-primary schools are • be accessible, affordable and
provided by both public and private sectors.
inclusive
 State run guarderias are free of charge/not flexible
• care for children in a safe, nurturing
environment
 Subsidies for parents in state run child care
• provide appropriate standards of
 Advantages for large families, lone mothers, or
children with disabilities child care
 Private guarderias are expensive / flexible • provide supports for parents in
financial need, who are employed, in
 quality of publicly provided childcare services training, or involved in other
employment activities
• normally schedule for child care

6. Accessibility Spain
Ontario
Accessible to everyone. (Including children with  Accessible to everyone
special needs).
 Child care subsidy is available for children
Programs that provide help in paying for child under the age of 3years
care:
Who is Eligible?
 Child care subsidy
 Residence of Spain
 Ontario child care supplement for working
families  Single mothers
 Canada child tax benefit In 2008 child care was funded by both public and
private.
 Universal child care benefit.
The cost of child care is around 5400 euros per
Who is Eligible? year on average
Residence of Ontario The public funding was promoted by the regional
government
If you a parent and your child is under 0-12years
old or up to 18years. One third of the child care cost was paid by the
regional government.
If your child has special needs and is in a licensed
child care center Plus meal and care during lunch

7. Conclusion
In Conclusion, we have discussed about
Accessibility, types of child care, history and roles
of ECE’s and philosophy both in Ontario and
Spain. so, we found out that Ontario provides
more quality child care than Spain.