What is a registered home childcare provider? licensed home daycare

The home childcare provider explained

Unlike a babysitter or an at-home nanny, a home childcare provider receives your children at her place of residence (sometimes she takes in a number of other children). These childcare providers are trained in Early Childhood Education (ECE) and must have a licence to provide childcare services in their home, if they care for over a certain number of children, not unlike a private in-home daycare. 

A trained professional.

These licensed in home childcare providers have not only received their certificate in ECE but have also had to undergo police criminal record and background checks in order for them to be able to receive their license. The number of children a childcare assistant can have in her home is also strictly regulated by the provincial government.

Home childcare providers are considered self-employed therefore you are not responsible for payroll deductions (EI, CPP or taxes). You agree on the rate whether hourly, daily, biweekly or monthly with the childcare provider and he or she is responsible for declaring her own income. 

Home-care: Government Funding

If you are the beneficiary of childcare assistance from your provincial government, you can certainly use your government funding to help pay the cost of your childcare provider. Private in-home daycares are becoming more and more the norm as public not-for-profit daycares often do not have available spaces and parents can be put on the wait-list for years.

Be aware! Not all home childcare providers are licensed!

Depending on which province you live in the licensing requirements for home childcare providers is different. For example, in Ontario, a home childcare professional only needs to be licensed if she has more than 5 children (not including her own children) in her home, in B.C. this number is much lower, at only 2.

  • Only licensed home childcare providers are part of the regulated provincial system and subject to annual checks from the government in order to ensure the safety of the home and the childcare provider.

What about male in-home childcare providers?

Assistant maternel homme
Why not? Although it may be traditionally considered female profession it is also open to men, of course. In general in-home childcare assistants have it "in their blood": this job is a real vocation for them. 

However, they suffer from completely unjustified prejudices: the parents with their calls for services generally do not dry up their praise for them!The term is used in the usual way the female profession but is also open to men of course. In general assistants maternal rights have that "blood" this profession is a vocation for them. 

However, they suffer from unjust prejudices completely unjustified: the parents who use their services generally do not run out og praise for them!

You can read here the account of a male daycare provider and his struggles against prejudice. 

The differences with an in-home nanny

There are many differences between a home childcare provider and a nanny at home. If you're not sure you know them we explain in this article. Check it out to decide which is the type of care that best suits you!

The advantages and disadvantages

Parents and therefore have a certain number of guarantees when they entrust their child to a childminder. You can read a detailed section about it here. All these criteria are used to educate parents about the care conditions for the child.

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