VISION FOR THE ST. THOMAS-ELGIN ONTARIO WORKS CHILD CARE PROGRAMOur goal is to create and maintain a high quality, family-focused system that promotes self-reliance and local solutions brought about by collaborative community partnerships. The St. Thomas-Elgin Ontario Works Guiding Principles Partnerships A primary objective is to ensure that families, child care providers, community agencies, municipalities and St Thomas-Elgin Ontario Works, work in partnership to ensure that children in need of child care receive appropriate and high quality care. Self-reliance The child care service must focus on assisting families in need to achieve ultimate financial independence wherever possible. St. Thomas-Elgin Ontario Works expects parents to take responsibility and actively participate in ensuring their children receive appropriate, high quality care. Accountability St. Thomas-Elgin Ontario Works in partnership with the Ministry of Children and Youth, will set clear performance standards for service providers and will support those programs, services and agencies that are effective and efficient and of high quality. Child/Client Focus While operating within the Child Care Service Guidelines, programs and services that support the best interests of the child will be the ongoing priority. Flexibility and Fairness Sensitivity to urban and rural issues, a variety of approaches, choice, and diversity of care, are the criteria for program and service development and support. St. Thomas-Elgin Ontario Works has developed a Child Care Program that:
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