Ontario. Child Care Branch

• Child Care Branch

• Ontario. Child Care Unit

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.

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.

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

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

KWIC Indexes to Services, 1986-2001;

Government of Ontario Telephone Directories, 1986-2001

Canadiana

Archivist(s):
Judith Pudden