Quote Originally Posted by cfred View Post
And for the record, I'm also in favour of regulation, but not as it stands now. The home daycare industry needs to have individual licensing rights and regulations that are more realistic and reasonable for our different style of care. I believe it's unreasonable for a home daycare to be held to the same restrictions as a large institution. We simply can't do some of the things they do such as install child sized toilets, age restrictions, etc. There needs to be a little more common sense applied.
Thank-you for the input and I fully agree. I ran a Day home with an agency and those were my very frustrations. Luckily I was able to find a agency that was more "hands-off" but still supportive. In Alberta if you are not approved then families can not access subsidy and providers miss out on wage top-ups.

Now I am curious how you choose regulations? Do you modify ones provided by agencies or the government? And a more personal question, what credentials do you think providers should have (criminal record checks, first aid, post- secondary training, ect)?