spudjt
10-13-2011, 10:08 AM
Hi all, I would love for you to share Your thoughts on this proposed letter of mine:
I am hoping you can provide me with some insight and inform me of any plans or discussions that are taking Place that would or might change the way things are currently done for and at private home childcares.
In particular I am concerned about full day learning and how this is going to impact home daycare and licensed homes. Upon my research I have found that Non licensed homes have 5 or 6 children no matter the age. I have found that there is one insurance company that will even insure a home for 6 childcare children ...so now we know that this is what those "more legal" unlicensed homes are doing and we can figure they are earning 5childrenx$40=$200 or $240 per day minus all the expenses. We also all know that there are some homes that have 10 daycare children in them and therefore are completely uninssured.
Licensed homes can currently only have 3 children under the age of 3..and with full day learning in place for next year we home providers will be having a huge paycut that will not make doing home daycare financially feesable. 3 x $35= $105/day minus expenses and food. ($35 is the county rate for over a child 18months and older, which should be $40 at least all the way across the board for any child) Food costs have increased dramatically and it now costs so much more per child per day that the income is not the same anymore...more than half and nearly 3/4 of the childcare fees go towards expenses. Gas prices and increased insurance costs have affected everyone.
So I guess that brings me to county provider pay, ratios, and ministry policy.. now that we are under the new ministry regulations, are there or can there be discussions brought forward to address the concerns of the continuance of licensed private home daycare. As many are aware, private home daycare offers a nonconventional daycare service often serving the needs of families with varying schedules, very early, late or overnight or weekend care that institutionalized childcares do not serve. Without licensed private home daycare children and their families will have less licensed and subsidized spaces available to them and there will be a financial impact within the community.
In my opinion , There should be better incentive for providing nonconventional childcare hours. $5 per day for before 630am, or after 6pm or on weeends would be more appropriate seeing the additional time, food etc used by that child. Children in care more than 10 hours should be compensated more as well! Children using before and after school should be paying $25 per day standard no matter how many hours, as they are holding up a spot... and this is still cheaper than what the school board quoted families and should include breakfast. This schoolage care is a much needed service in our communities but providers dont offer the service because it doesnt create any income, the pay as it is is absorbed by expenses and these children take up a full spot when they use before and after school care. Ratios should be increased to maximum of 6 children per home no matter the age and allow should allow for assistants or partners to work together...
I hope my insight and suggestions can be considered in any current or future discussions around these issues.
Thanks for listening and for considering my thoughts and for forwarding them on to any appropriate bodies.
Best regards, I look forward to hearing back from you!
I am hoping you can provide me with some insight and inform me of any plans or discussions that are taking Place that would or might change the way things are currently done for and at private home childcares.
In particular I am concerned about full day learning and how this is going to impact home daycare and licensed homes. Upon my research I have found that Non licensed homes have 5 or 6 children no matter the age. I have found that there is one insurance company that will even insure a home for 6 childcare children ...so now we know that this is what those "more legal" unlicensed homes are doing and we can figure they are earning 5childrenx$40=$200 or $240 per day minus all the expenses. We also all know that there are some homes that have 10 daycare children in them and therefore are completely uninssured.
Licensed homes can currently only have 3 children under the age of 3..and with full day learning in place for next year we home providers will be having a huge paycut that will not make doing home daycare financially feesable. 3 x $35= $105/day minus expenses and food. ($35 is the county rate for over a child 18months and older, which should be $40 at least all the way across the board for any child) Food costs have increased dramatically and it now costs so much more per child per day that the income is not the same anymore...more than half and nearly 3/4 of the childcare fees go towards expenses. Gas prices and increased insurance costs have affected everyone.
So I guess that brings me to county provider pay, ratios, and ministry policy.. now that we are under the new ministry regulations, are there or can there be discussions brought forward to address the concerns of the continuance of licensed private home daycare. As many are aware, private home daycare offers a nonconventional daycare service often serving the needs of families with varying schedules, very early, late or overnight or weekend care that institutionalized childcares do not serve. Without licensed private home daycare children and their families will have less licensed and subsidized spaces available to them and there will be a financial impact within the community.
In my opinion , There should be better incentive for providing nonconventional childcare hours. $5 per day for before 630am, or after 6pm or on weeends would be more appropriate seeing the additional time, food etc used by that child. Children in care more than 10 hours should be compensated more as well! Children using before and after school should be paying $25 per day standard no matter how many hours, as they are holding up a spot... and this is still cheaper than what the school board quoted families and should include breakfast. This schoolage care is a much needed service in our communities but providers dont offer the service because it doesnt create any income, the pay as it is is absorbed by expenses and these children take up a full spot when they use before and after school care. Ratios should be increased to maximum of 6 children per home no matter the age and allow should allow for assistants or partners to work together...
I hope my insight and suggestions can be considered in any current or future discussions around these issues.
Thanks for listening and for considering my thoughts and for forwarding them on to any appropriate bodies.
Best regards, I look forward to hearing back from you!