Bill 10 has passed - law as of Jan. 2016

There is also a meet and greet in Brampton on Tuesday. It is at Boston Pizza, Steeles and Kennedy from 6:30 to 8:30. So any Brampton area providers, please come out to meet Lisa!

Hey! Great! What's the exact address?

The address is 65 Resolution Drive. It is in the Walmart plaza.

Yes cfred just realized i did not put the address in it is at my co-op in the community room at 10 Elsinore Path

Thanks Kar. I was more asking about the Brampton one as T had asked me to call some Montessori schools for Tuesday's event. She's done it already though....sucks that everything was closed today though! Might be a small crowd.

What is the CURRENT penalty if one is looking after 6 instead of 5 children

Not sure. You're never allowed to have 6 kids at the same time, any time. I'm not sure what they do....you should probably have a look at the DNA. I think they make you call the parent of the extra child for pick up, but don't quote me on it. Or are you talking about having 6 kids in total but only 5 at one time? You can have as many kids as you want enrolled, but only 5 can attend at any given time. Daycare insurance will only cover 5 children, maximum.

I want to say a fine of $2000/day of every day they can prove you've been over, and forcing you to shut down for 2 weeks, if it is a first offence, and then random spot checks for a while afterwards to make sure you never have more than 5....but I can't find it online!! I've had so much info about the current laws and new laws and legalese in my brain for so long it's getting jumbled, so I could be TOTALLY off-base....but I believe it's a fine of a certain amount per day, and then shutting the provider down for a specific amount of time.

And cfred is right, that is all for a provider caring for 6 children AT ONE TIME...you could have 20 children enrolled if you wanted to, as long as they never overlapped to give you more than 5 at a time.

And currently, a provider's own children don't count in that total of 5. I say it only because I've got 3 of my own, so when everyone's here and we're doing the school run, for example, I've got 8 kids with me, and I'm sure people wonder.

I was just about to add that CrazyEight.....$2000/day sticks in my mind as well.

Thanks cfred, maybe I'm not completely nuts! :)