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Professional trained ECE environment is always better that home based daycare when it comes to learning and social interaction. Some daycare providers will sit your kid down in front of a tv all day long. Some, not all.

Due to the new bill being passed rates will be going up all over the place including daycare centers.

Jenn

Ontario is tightening provincial rules governing unregulated daycare businesses and throwing the book at those that flout the law.
Under the Child Care Modernization Act, the province would be able to immediately close a daycare where children are at risk.
In addition, the act would allow ministry officials to levy penalties of up to $100,000 per infraction against caregivers running illegal daycares.
Maximum fines would rise from $2,000 to $250,000 under the proposed act.
If the legislation is enacted, ministry officials would no longer have to go to court to issue fines or shutter an illegal daycare.

The proposed legislation would also take away the financial incentive of remaining unregulated. Under the act, anyone providing care for more than five children under age 10 — including their own children — would require a licence.

Unregulated caregivers would be further restricted by being able to care for only two children under age 2, as is currently the law for regulated home daycares.

The new legislation, which runs to more than 100 pages, also clarifies many “gray areas” in the current rules around what type of care has to be licensed.

Provisions in the act would also give the education ministry more authority to share child care information with other ministries and government authorities, such as Children’s Aid and public health.

Rates will go up because there are less spots available for kids. It's that simple.

Exactly. There will be a huge demand for infant spaces given providers now have to follow the "2 under 2 rule". Daycare centers know this, you don't think their not going to try to take advantage of it? come on. They aren't in the business to keep rates affordable for parents, their in it to make money where they can.