Child Care

The Child Care Licensing Regulation sets out health and safety requirements, licence application requirements, staffing qualifications, and program standards for licensed child care settings. Additionally schedules include a list of approved Early Childhood Education programs and first aid requirements. Licensed child care provides care for three or more children (unrelated to the facility operator). The types of child care programs are:

• group child care;
• Under 36 months
• 30 months to school age
• School age
• preschool;
• family child care;
• multi age child care;
• in-home multi age child care;
• occasional child care

Standards of Practice (PDF 73.9 Kb)

Early Childhood Educator Registry 
The Ministry of Children and Family Development is responsible for the Early Childhood Educator Registry.