Child care and early years funding guidelines

Service system managers (current)

Chapter 0

• Foreword (Updated November 2025) (PDF)

Chapter 1

• Funding Guideline (Updated November 2025) (PDF)

Chapter 2

• Division 1: CWELCC Participation Guideline (Updated November 2025) (PDF)
• Division 2: CWELCC Cost-Based Funding Guideline (Updated April 2026) (PDF)
• Appendix 1: Schedules (Updated November 2025) (PDF)

Chapter 3

• Division 1: Local Priorities Guideline (Updated November 2025) (PDF)
• Division 2: Innovation Fund (Updated November 2025) (PDF)
• Division 3: Early Childhood Educator Promotional Fund (Updated November 2025) (PDF)
• Appendix 1: Policy Statement - Access to Subsidized Child Care (Updated November 2025) (PDF)

Chapter 4

• Indigenous-led Child Care and Child and Family Programs Guideline (Updated November 2025) (PDF)

Chapter 5

• Infrastructure Guideline (Updated November 2025) (PDF)

Chapter 6

• EarlyON Guideline (Updated November 2025) (PDF)

Chapter 7

• EFIS Reporting Requirements (Updated November 2025) (PDF)

Other documents

• 2026 Funding Allocations Technical Paper (April 2026) (PDF)
• Standardized Financial Report and Cost Reviews Requirements (Updated April 2026) (PDF)
• Cost-based funding - Questions and Answers Release 1 (August 2024) (PDF)
• Cost-based funding - Questions and Answers Release 2 (October 2024) (PDF)
• Ontario Child Care and Early Years Funding Guidelines - Questions and Answers Release 3 (November 2024) (PDF)
• Ontario Child Care and Early Years Funding Guidelines - Questions and Answers Release 4 (June 2025) (PDF)
• Ontario Child Care and Early Years Funding Guidelines - Questions and Answers Release 5 (November 2025) (PDF)
• Ontario Child Care and Early Years Funding Guidelines - Questions and Answers Release 6 (March 2026) (PDF)

First Nations and transfer payment agencies (current)

2026-27 Child Care and Child and Family Programs Business Practice, Service and Funding Guideline (PDF)

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Service system managers

Related

• Log in to EFIS 2.0 (Education Finance Information System)
• Child care and early years: funding guidance and financial reporting