Does anyone have hired help for your dc???

[giraffe]

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.

I'm sorry MAFM but I'm pretty sure that Reggio is right.

[Inspired by Reggio]

I'm sorry MAFM but I'm pretty sure that Reggio is right.

Ya I know here in Ontario that there are people who believe that 'unregulated daycare' means there are NO rules at all too ~ this is not the case the minimal rules are THERE that one must follow just as it seems like they are there according to the Alberta website ... so for us we cannot care for more than 5 daycare children under the age of 10 plus our own ~ and even though we are 'unregulated' as business owners we must still follow all city bylaws for zoning and fire codes and so forth or risk fines and issues of being closed down by those agencies ... is just up to the individual business owner to ensure they are following those minimum rules as know one is coming in and 'inspecting' that you are ~ as a business owner it is each persons own due diligence to ensure they are following the rules for their industry or risk it hitting the fan so to speak ... even unregulated if you fined yourself in front of a Civil court judge due to a client suing you you are going to be held to the 'standard of practice of the industry' which is going to include those rules the government deems 'best practice' so it is wise to know them and if you choose not to follow them for whatever reason you need to be confident you can argue to a judge why you did not if a child is injured in your business and they feel that 'rule not being followed' was why

Problem is that violations of the over ratio issue or fire code issues and other rules are 'complaint' based so unless a child is injured and harmed to draw attention to the illegal practice or unless a neighbor or unhappy client lodges a complaint the programs go unchecked ... you hear the news story of 'illegal childcare gets busted' at least once or twice a year in Ontario news but in the meantime lots of illegal providers are able to thrive and it is one of the reason why advocates are pushing to remove the option of 'unregulated childcare' at all in Ontario because sadly too many people are not able to 'self regulate' giving the rest of us who are a bad reputation!