Limits in Your Province/Territory. please

[CrazyEight]

Well, I now know provinces, as we're looking at possibly moving to New Brunswick.

ONTARO

You CANNOT be independently licensed or registered in Ontario, you are either Private (which most people inaccurately call unlicensed) or you are contracted through a licensed Agency. As far as I know, most agencies count your own children in your total number, and restrict the amount of infants you can have.

Private caregivers do NOT have to count their own children in their total number of allowed daycare children, which is 5. You can have 5 children not including your own under care at one time, up to the age of 10, after which they don't count. There are no other restrictions on the ages you can have.

The new Bill would make children count until the age of 13, require providers to count their own children until age 6 in their total number, and restrict providers to only 2 children under age 2, including any of the provider's own children. Hence why we are fighting the Bill. But I won't hijack this thread...

NEW BRUNSWICK

Here you can be private/unlicensed or independently licensed through the provincial government.

Providers can have ONE of the following:

a) 3 infants
b) 4 preschoolers (ages 2-5)
c) 8 school-agers, but ALL must be over age 5
d) 5 children of mixed ages, with only 1 infant

If licensed, those numbers increase somewhat:

a) 3 infants
b) 5 preschoolers
c) 9 schoolagers
d) 6 of mixed ages, with only 2 infants and one having to be over age 5

Providers' own children count until age 12. Independent licensing looks pretty strict, but there are "wage enhancements" paid by the govt, because of a shortage of spots, particularly infant spots. It's super-complicated, which I assume is why I haven't found anyone on here from NB!