there is no 1 under 1 rule. The new restrictions are:
-age of a daycare child has been raised from 10 to age 13. Now a child under 13 in your care will count as one of your total 5
-unlicensed providers can have a total of 5 children, including their own under age 6
-all providers must follow the 2 under 2 rule
-agency providers will be allowed to have 6 children, but must have agency approval for square footage and provider capability, it isn't automatic.
These are set to come into effect January 1st, 2016.
There was ONE amendment that the Liberals made, but it is very unclear. The LIB MPP that read it said that a provider's own children under age 6 that are enrolled in a full-time JK or SK program won't count "on school calendar days." We have no idea what exactly this means. It could refer to only B/A school on regular days, it could extend to PA days, xmas break, and spring break, it probably won't extend to summer break (because then the child would never count in the numbers, and obviously they will sometimes, because otherwise the Bill would have been amended to count providers own children under age 4, or providers own children that are not in school, etc). The only thing to do with that is to wait for clarification from the liberals as to exactly what that means.

































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