Hello Everyone,

I’m planning on opening a daycare in about 6 months’ time – my goal is to keep costs relatively low and expand with the business.
I’d like to rent out a medium sized-small location and run an unlicensed/home daycare at first while ironing out details before expansion.
My question is if I have two adults or even three in Quebec your allowed 6 kids per adult without a license for an at home daycare – If there is two adults can I have 12 kids?
Does the daycare have to be in my home?
What worries me about the licensed private daycare is the 5 year leases you must provide to the qc government. A 5 Year lease is a big investment and I’d like to test the waters before I commit to a 5 year commitment..

Also the autocad design and approval required by an architect to send to the government – all of these things seem costly and again I would like to test the waters business wise prior with an unlicensed/home daycare.

Any help is much appreciated…