Recent studies suggest that for every $1 invested on quality care and early learning at-risk chidren can mean up tot $13 in savings in later social costs including crime, health care and employability. –The Hon. Margaret Morrie McCain, Co-author of The Early Years Study: Reversing the Real Brain Drain, and the Early Years Study 2: Putting Science into Action, Council of Early Child Development.)

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Want to encourage your child’s love of writing? Or inspire one who would rather do anything but write? The answer may be as simple as finding the right pen.

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Working together for a community based, non-profit child care system that is
high quality, affordable, accessible, publicly funded and accountable.
September 1, 2009 — Media Release — BC Budget Update Response
The Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC remains discouraged that British Columbia continues to
have one of the weakest approaches to child care in the industrialized world [...]

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