The Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) has released the Ontario Care Policy Scorecard, a tool used that will be used to assess the policies that shape the Ontarian care economy. The tool is adapted from Oxfam Canada’s nationally-focused Care Policy Scorecard, which launched in 2021.
The Scorecard consists of three sections with related policy areas:
- Unpaid care work: Policy areas related to unpaid care work, the policy measures they entail, how they address inequalities in heavy and unequal unpaid care work, and what makes them transformative.
- Paid care work: Policy areas related to paid care, the policy measures they entail, how they address vulnerable and/or unsafe working conditions and/or environments and discriminate against women and migrant care workers, and what makes them transformative.
- Cross-sectoral policy areas: Key cross-sectoral policy areas related to both unpaid and paid care work, the policy measures they entail, how they address inequalities, and what makes them transformative.
Each policy area includes sets of indicators alongside an assessment criteria to develop an overall score for each indicator. At the end of each policy area, there is a scoring matrix provided to indicate the degree to which the policies are transformative.
ONN expects to use the scorecard to complete an evaluation of Ontario’s care policies in 2026.
Citation
Ontario Nonprofit Network. (2025). Ontario Care Policy Scorecard. https://theonn.ca/topics/onn-projects/ontario-care-policy-scorecard/