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Sistema Pan-Canadiano de Educação e Cuidado na Primeira Infância (creche a 10 dólares/dia)

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Desde 2021, o Canadá firmou acordos bilaterais com todas as províncias e territórios para reduzir as propinas das creches para 10 dólares/dia, coincidindo com uma participação recorde de mães no mercado de trabalho e cerca de 29 mil mães adicionais empregadas até final de 2025.

~16% → 5%

Despesa com creches em percentagem do rendimento familiar líquido (2021-2025)

75.8% → 79.6%

Participação na força de trabalho, mães com filhos pequenos (2019-2023)

29,000

Mães adicionais empregadas atribuíveis ao programa (2021-2025)

112,000 of 250,000+

Novos lugares de creche criados vs meta (by 2024/25)

Details

Maturity: Scaling
Promoter: Employment and Social Development Canada (federal government, with provincial/territorial bilateral agreements)
Period: 2021–present
Keywords: care economy, childcare, early learning, labour force participation, federalism

Context

Desde 2021, o Governo do Canadá assinou acordos bilaterais Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care com todas as províncias e territórios, comprometendo transferências federais (mais 36,8 mil milhões de CAD orçamentados para 2026-27 a 2030-31) em troca da redução das mensalidades de creche reguladas para uma média de 10 dólares por dia. Em fevereiro de 2025, oito províncias e territórios ofereciam cuidados a 10 dólares/dia ou menos e todos os restantes tinham pelo menos reduzido as mensalidades para metade.

Results

A despesa média dos pais com creches caiu de pouco menos de 16% do rendimento familiar líquido antes de 2021 para 5% em janeiro de 2025, e a participação na força de trabalho das mães com filhos pequenos atingiu o recorde de 79,6% em 2023. Uma análise independente do Centre for the Study of Living Standards (junho de 2026) estimou 29.000 mães adicionais empregadas e cerca de 2,7 mil milhões de CAD por ano acrescentados ao PIB, enquanto o Auditor-Geral federal constatou que apenas cerca de 112.000 dos 250.000+ novos lugares previstos tinham sido criados até 2024/25.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-07-05
Employment and Social Development Canada (federal government, with provincial/territorial bilateral agreements) — accessed 2026-07-05
Canada.ca — Toward $10-a-Day: Early Learning and Child Care Backgrounder — accessed 2026-07-05
The Globe and Mail — More moms in work force, increased GDP as result of national $10-a-day child-care program — accessed 2026-07-05
The Globe and Mail — Five years into $10-a-day national child-care plan, many of its promises remain unfulfilled — accessed 2026-07-05

Quality score: 96/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Observational / pre–post

Top 4% in this catalogue (719 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Transferability / replicability2/3

A federal-cost-shared bilateral-agreement model transferable to other federations, though it depends on a specific fiscal-transfer architecture not all countries have.

Impact on gender equality1/1

Maternal labour-force participation with young children rose to a record 79.6% (2023) from 75.8% (2019), concurrent with the fee cuts, per government and independent reporting.

Effectiveness1/1

Average child-care cost as a share of after-tax family income fell from ~16% to 5% (Jan 2025), directly achieving the programme's affordability objective in most jurisdictions.

Efficiency1/1

Delivered through existing federal-provincial transfer mechanisms rather than a new delivery agency, though the Auditor-General found space-creation lagging targets, reflecting execution costs.

Evaluated outcomes1/1

Centre for the Study of Living Standards' independent June 2026 econometric analysis (Ali Shariati) quantified 29,000 jobs and CAD 2.7B/year in GDP using Labour Force Survey data.

Sustainability1/1

Multi-year bilateral agreements plus a further CAD 36.8 billion committed for 2026-27–2030-31 with built-in 3% annual escalators indicate durable federal funding commitment.

Achievement / evidence1/1

Concrete, government- and independent-verified milestones: 8 jurisdictions at $10/day, record maternal employment, and a quantified GDP/employment effect.

Gender-mainstreaming embedding1/1

Explicitly designed and marketed as a maternal-employment policy, with government tracking disaggregated by mothers of young children, showing gender is central to programme design.

Curator validation1/1

Figures cross-verified between the federal government's own backgrounder (canada.ca) and an independent economist's analysis reported by The Globe and Mail, converging on consistent employment estimates.

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