Link to rules for Private providers

[Inspired by Reggio]

... I hope they take into consideration the sudden shortage of childcare they are going to cause when people like me are forced to shut down for lack of financial viability. ...

One would hope that they would 'graduate' any changes in slowly and in a better manner than what they did with Full Day Early Learning ... cause even with that graduated change over the course of 5 years it has resulted in the closing of many childcare centres across Ontario and will likley continue to do so by the time 2015 rolls out and ALL schools have this option ... centres are not able to cope because the loss of 4 to 5 year olds was their main 'profit' as toddler programs break even and infant programs cost money to offer in the regulated industry, there is a large inability of the programs to 'alter/renovate' their businesses to care for infants and toddler ages instead because of the additional requirements this age impose and well in some cases the inability to 'staff' the programs with the loss of ECE in their communities migrating to the better paying school based positions creating a shortage of being able to meet even the 'bare minimum' of only 1 RECE per group ... that change has truly done a number on the 'centre' industry for sure and I am afraid what further 'changes' might do!

I will admit that one of 'paranoid wear a tinfoil hat' thoughts that occassionally enters my mind when I hear rumors about the current government agenda is that they WANT to destroy the current childcare system by driving those of us who could not 'adapt' to a regulated one out of business in order to create a further shortage of 'childcare' and therefore make it more palatable for big business to accept voting for tax payers supporting a 'national childcare program' where they would be no option to be 'private business' at all ... I believe that they truly goal is to have ALL childcare options under the Ministry of Education umbrella in a non profit regulated partnership ... and lots of organizations out there lobbying for this as well as 'unregulated childcare' always gets tainted as evil and responsible for all the harm and even when horrible things happen in a regulated industry it gets implied that it was because we still do not have ENOUGH regulation