Enhance the College’s relationships with government and other policy makers to ensure our work in protecting the public interest is recognized and supported in public policy and legislative change
• Implemented significant changes to College practices and the public register to enhance transparency and public protection, in accordance with the Child Care Modernization Act
• Received the regulatory authority to make continuous professional learning mandatory for all members of the College and prepared to introduce it as a requirement of membership beginning in September 2016
• Met regularly with the Ministry of Education and provided input to the second phase of regulations made under the Child Care and Early Years Act
• Held round table meetings with employers and unions representing registered early childhood educators
• Began to develop a framework for the exploration of practice readiness in the early childhood education sector and met with employers to obtain feedback