Quote Originally Posted by Inspired by Reggio View Post
Hmmm ~ according to the Alberta government website anyone caring for '7 or more children' requires a license so it seems they DO regulate private home childcare at least to the extent that you can only care for 6 children or less before you are required to be licensed in some manner?
Just a year and a half ago I looked into this in depth though my local licensing office. Those license requirements are, as I was told, for daycare centers or proffessional childcare situations representing themselves as such. I understand that in other provences you don't have such entities as "dayhomes" or "private dayhomes". This is what "shelter" I operate under. I have no official rules that govern my care ratio. Of course that doesnt mean that if I took on 10 kids I wouldn't get into trouble. Im sure somewhere along the line child and family services would come knocking at my door. But this question was about obtaining help. You most certainly can do it that way in Alberta. We are the most entrepreneurial provence.