Ontario providers

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This is ridiculous. It's like they are pretending independent home daycare providers don't exist! Why not include us in this, would it really be so difficult for the ministry to set up some kind of framework similar to the college of trades or similar and send inspectors out 2-4 times a year to make sure we comply? Charge us an annual license fee and have us have some kind of mandatory training and standards to live up to if they are really so concerned about safety. It is a framework which works based on safety of children not profit which is used in many other countries with efficiency.

On another note, I've turned 17 families away in the last 2 weeks for spots for children under two! Yesterday I had a woman in tears over the phone saying that since this change she is being put in a situation where she is being forced to leave her children with a provider she is not happy with. What is her alternative? Quitting her job and staying at home would mean she will lose her home! There are many providers in my area, not to many good ones, and even less infant spots. Two daycare centres with mediocre reputations, high fees and no additional spots to compensate for bill 10. Simply restricting numbers does ABSOLUTLY NOTHING to keep the children safe in fact quite possibly to the contrary when children are being placed in poor quality settings, and the government continue to back us into a corner where home daycare is no longer a viable source of income and providers and parents are in a position where they could lose their homes and/or have the choice to have a family taken away from them. This is utter bullshit!