The hazards that disrupt everything!

During the years you will spend with your home caregiver, you might run into certain exceptional happenings that will entail certain changes on the administration level.

We will detail in the pages below the main situations which you might be confronted with..

Sick child and caregiver? Reduction in fees?

According to the terms of the contract that you agreed upon, what will happen when your child is sick? Will your home caregiver take him in? What illnesses are restricted?Will you still be required to pay for the days when he is not able to attend?

Changing the hours of the home caregiver: is it possible?

It can happen to you more than once, to make occasional changes to the hours of the childcare. How does that work with the fees of the home caregiver? Do you still have to make if your child is temporarily being cared for by grandma? What if a change needs to be made permanently, what must you do?

The arrival of a new baby

You're expecting another baby: can you imagine entrusting him or her to the same caregiver? How to best prepare for this situation.

Your child is starting school

Here it is, your little one will already be starting preschool in September! How to manage this change with your home caregiver?  Do you place agree to before and after-school care or put an end to the contract?

My home childcare professional is sick: what to do?

Panic time, my home childcare provider is on sick leave for two weeks ! Besides the crisis to find someone you can trust to replace her, how will that work with her pay? Who will pay for her absences? 

My home caregiver had a work accident.

It's well understood, life's accidents don't just happen to other people. And this time it's happened to your home childcare provider. How to determine if it's really a work-related accident? What about the involvement of the  Worker's Compensation Board (WCB)? What does the process look like? Are you still responsible for paying her?

My childcare professional is pregnant.

That's it, the news has just come, your caregiver is expecting a baby. You had bet with your husband. And you begin to ask yourself dozens of questions!
How are we going to find another nanny? Should we let her go? What next?