Version #2 of ICP template (choose either one)


To Whom it may concern;

I am a legally unlicensed independent home daycare provider in __________, Ontario, and have been offering (5) valuable child care spaces to my community for the past __ years.
I have my CPR and first aid, insurance, and a professional contract for care. I offer lower ratios and rates than daycare centres, in a safe and loving home environment. I provide high quality meals and snacks, an age appropriate program for the children, and the continuity of one emotionally connected provider throughout a child’s stay. Parents search out my program as a first choice in their child care options.

Despite independent home daycare being the most popular, inexpensive, and diverse form of childcare in our province, it is still recovering from the loss of daycare spaces due to the restrictions contained within the CCEYA, and further constraints will render these essential, entrepreneurial businesses unviable.

This Government continues to spend billions of dollars to reinvent an unmendable wheel rather than acknowledge, license, and utilize the existing, self-sustaining and highly accessible independent sector of child care. We need a new model of childcare in Ontario to provide quality independent licensing of providers at low to no cost to taxpayers, rather than sinking billions into a system that is not sustainable, nor does it support the 70 000 independent providers who comprise the majority of childcare spots within our province.

We need to maintain choice in child care! Please take a stand, on our behalf, to ensure that independent home child care remains viable for parents and providers both by not forcing us into a model that will limit our capacity to deliver affordable, enriched care.

Sincerely