Quote Originally Posted by cfred View Post
I'd love to hear more about this daycaremom9. How does it work? The title doesn't sound good for providers. Is it like a subsidy?
The family daycares that have opted in would receive $60-$200 for each child in order to decrease the parents fees by the same amount.There would be a list of which daycares have opted in on-line. The daycares that have opted into this initiative have signed a contract agreeing that we wouldn't raise our rates for the duration of the contract (1 year) and that we wouldn't be taking more than 4 weeks total of vacation time (only allowing us to take 2 different periods for no longer than 2 weeks at a time). I'm ok with everything set out aside from all the extra time filling out forms. But who knows what they'll include in this contract next year.
The government here wants to open huge centres but how will they staff them when there is a shortage of people untrained? The daycare association here alluded to the fact that the government may be trying to close privately run daycares and using these owners for these centres.
The government keeps talking about "quality daycare" demeaning us private daycare providers assuming that we don't run a quality program.