Child Care
A child care cooperative is an association of parents, or community representatives (or a combination of these key players) that was established to provide quality child care and/or education. This kind of cooperative may vary in size, and can actually be classified in three basic types: the pre-school cooperative, the daycare cooperative, and the babysitting cooperative.
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Child care cooperatives are growing in numbers worldwide. In fact there are currently over 500 child care cooperatives in Canada only. The popularity of this type of cooperative can be credited to its advantages and positive attributes, which the study “Child Care Co-Operatives in Canada 2007: A research report” identified as the following: Child care cooperatives help in the delivery of social services, they have certain financial advantages, i.e. reinvestment of profit in the enterprise that allows improvement of service, they offer great benefits to staff, they foster parental participation in child care, and they are directly linked to the community.