Ontario. Child Care Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Child Care Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Child Care Branch

    Other form(s) of name

    • Ontario. Child Care Unit

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1986-2000

    History

    The Child Care Branch was created in 1986 within the Ministry of Community and Social Services as part of the newly established Family Services and Income Maintenance Division. It had no immediate predecessor within the Ministry, although the development of policy was formerly conducted within the Policy and Program Development Division.

    In 1992, the Child Care Branch was moved to the Children, Family and Community Services Division. For a brief period in late 1993 and early 1994 the branch was taken over by the Strategic Directions Division, but it quickly returned to Children, Family and Community Services.

    It was renamed the Child Care Unit 1999, and ceased to exist in 2000 when it was merged with the Healthy Babies, Healthy Children initiative, to form the Healthy Child Development Branch of the Integrated Services for Children Division.

    Places

    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Child Care Branch was responsible for policy development and program design for child care services in Ontario, including nursery schools, day care centres and private home day care agencies. The Child Care Branch was not responsible for the delivery of service, rather, these were delivered through the area offices of the Ministry of Community and Social Services.

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    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Ontario. Ministry of Community and Social Services (1972-2018)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA35

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Ministry of Community and Social Services controls Ontario. Child Care Branch

    Dates of relationship

    1986-2000

    Description of relationship

    Access points area

    Subject access points

    Place access points

    Epithet

    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    CA1602

    Institution identifier

    Rules and/or conventions used

    RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

    Status

    Approved

    Level of detail

    Dates of creation, revision and deletion

    2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

    Language(s)

      Script(s)

        Sources

        KWIC Indexes to Services, 1986-2001;

        Government of Ontario Telephone Directories, 1986-2001

        Canadiana

        Maintenance notes

        Archivist(s):
        Judith Pudden