Best Start

Best Start is Ontario's plan for high quality, affordable, integrated Early Learning and Child Care Programs, and to ensure Early Healthy Development.

Goal of Best Start

The goal of Best Start is to have children ready and eager to learn by the time they start Grade One.

The Best Start Plan

Best Start involves an expansion of quality and affordable child care and investments in every child's healthy early development, working in partnership with parents and families. This plan will provide more integrated and accessible services, more high quality, regulated child care spaces, and more subsidies so that more families can access those spaces. It is a long-term strategy that will be implemented over 10 years, beginning with an immediate expansion of child care spaces.


Best Start Network

The Best Start Network is made up of members reflecting a broad range of community perspectives to help develop a plan that contains the community’s vision for Best Start. 
 

Best Start Initiative includes:

• Newborn and infant screening

• Hearing programs

• Speech and language therapy that help identify and provide support to children who need extra help for healthy early development.

• Quality child care

• Public health

• Parenting programs that help parents help their children to be successful in school.

Families are also put in touch with other services that they might need.

 Click Here
to download a Best Start PowerPoint Presentation
 from the Ministry of Children and Youth Services.