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.
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.
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.
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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!
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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