Chapter 0

• Foreword (Updated November 2025)

Chapter 1

• Funding Guideline (Updated November 2025)

Chapter 2

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

Chapter 3

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

Chapter 4

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

Chapter 5

• InfrInfrastructure Guideline (Updated November 2025)

Chapter 6

• EarlyON Guideline (Updated November 2025)

Chapter 7

• EFIS Reporting Requirements (Updated November 2025)

Other Documents:

• 2025 Funding Allocations Technical Paper - (January 2025)
• Cost-based funding - Questions and Answers Release 1 (August 2024)
• Cost-based funding - Questions and Answers Release 2 (October 2024)
• Ontario Child Care and Early Years Funding Guidelines - Questions and Answers Release 5 (November 2025)
• Standardized Financial Report and Cost Reviews Requirements (November 2025)

Guideline Archives

• Guideline Archive