The one thing I can't figure out is why day care costs so much. It is almost or in some cases a second mortgage. However in this crazy world of ours it is impossible for one person to support a family
The average cost for a licensed day Care facility in Ontario is 40.00 per day minimum and they can have upto five kids total. That is good money the only thing how much does the home daycare provider actually get from the establishment she represents.
Day care rates are 40.00 per day = 200.00 per week = 800.00 per month for a total of 9600 per year.
We pay more for daycare for 1 child then we do for the mortgage on our house. This doesn’t make sense we have only 1 child and find this expensive multiple that by 2 and you get 19,200. That rate is almost half of my salary (the factor of 2)
The government of Quebec subsidize day care making it affordable.
Here is the information from the Government of Quebec Website.
Province of Quebec
Child day care services at minimal cost
Early childhood centres offer places at $7 a day in day care centre-type facilities and family day care facilities, for children from 0 to 4 years of age. The for-profit day care centres that have entered into an agreement with the ministère de la Famille et des Aînés also offer these places.
Children in kindergarten and elementary school are also entitled to places at $7 a day in school day care facilities, under the reduced-contribution program of day care for children of school age. If the school does not offer day care services, early childhood centres with places available may accommodate the children at the same rate.
From the Government of Quebec site: http://www.gouv.qc.ca/portail/quebec/pgs/commun/portrait/modernesolidaire/mesuressociales/famille/?lang=en
You can obtain the contact information of all Québec childcare centres and daycare centres and see their location on a map. The locator indicates childcare services in operation and under development that the ministère de la Famille et des Aînés has authorized and that are expected to open within the next 18 months. It is updated weekly.
As for home childcare services, the use of the search by proximity function allows you to determine whether there are home childcare services within the radius that you have specified. The search will display, as the case may be, the contact informaion of the coordinating offices to which the recognized home childcare providers pinpointed report. The coordinating office will facilitate your search among the providers of such childcare services.When you use the childcare establishment locator, you can refine your search in order to obtain the contact information for childcare services that offer reduced-contribution spaces ($7) or those that accept babies under 18 months of age.
Childcare service directories by administrative region (French only) are also available. The directories indicate the contact information for childcare centres, daycare centres and the coordinating offices of home childcare providers in each region of Québec.
From the Government of Quebec website: http://www.mfa.gouv.qc.ca/fr/ministere/services-outils/localisateur/Pages/index_en.aspx
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