My experience, too, comes partly from work in the field, because I spent 19 years with what we called "daycares" at that time, but that were child care services. In addition, my wife started an early childhood centre at Radio-Canada, where she was the big boss at the time.
Quebec's success derives precisely from the fact that we have developed a system of early childhood centres, the CPEs, that imposes a number of criteria on the process and structure of child care and requires private child care services and the CPEs to have parents with roots in the communities, who can give feedback, on their boards of directors...