We recently produced a special brochure that provides a summary of child development issues in our community. Please have a look here. The following are the sources we consulted to produce the brochure.

The primary sources of information are:

We also consulted a number of city reports that have been produced, obtained through John Stark, Social Planner, City of New Westminster. You can reach John for more information about these reports at jstark@newwestcity.ca. Two of these include:

We pulled the childcare costs from a special report in the Vancouver Sun titled “Average Child Care Fees by Municipality”, published July 19th, 2014.

Housing Data from the CMHC Housing Market Information Portal.

Census data was also used in our calculations.