Pretty much every daycare centre has rules for determining which room a child belongs in using a combination of age/development. A centre has a room for each group whereas in home care we just have one room for multiple ages. Funding and fees are determined by the rooms too with more paid for a child in the infant room than the preschool room.

The issue is not so much about the child not walking but that the mom is expecting the home daycare to keep her child temporarily till she is walking so she can go into the cheaper priced grouping - walkers have a higher ratio of child to adult than crawlers hence the lower fees owing. The provider has the right to feel used and the right to say well too bad should have thought aboaut that when child wasn't walking at 12 months and put name on list for 24 months instead.