S-4.1.1 - Educational Childcare Act

Section 101.2.1 Disposition versions

2024-04-27

101.2.1. An educational childcare provider may, with the Minister’s authorization, receive children admitted to preschool education services or elementary school instructional services, provided that every child received as such is there at the same time as either

(1)  a child referred to in the first paragraph of section 2 with whom the child of school age resides; or

(2)  a staff member who is the parent of the child of school age or a person with whom the child resides.

An authorization is granted if the applicant shows, to the satisfaction of the Minister,

(1)  that the applicant has the facilities needed to ensure the health, safety and well-being of the children receiving childcare;

(2)  that being granted such an authorization will not affect their ability, in the case of a permit holder, to comply with the rules otherwise applicable to the permit holder, in particular those relating to the ratio of staff to children receiving childcare or, in the case of a home educational childcare provider, the rules relating to the number of children to whom they may provide childcare; and

(3)  that the services provided to those children are not intended to remedy the lack of childcare services at school or to replace them, but rather are intended to complete a childcare service supply according to atypical schedules with a view to facilitating, for the parents, the reconciliation of their parental responsibilities with their professional or student responsibilities.

“Atypical schedule” means a schedule during which the children receiving childcare are mostly present at the educational childcare provider’s centre outside the core hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., from Monday to Friday, except in exceptional circumstances.

The Government may determine, by regulation, from among the standards set out in this Act and those established under section 106, the standards that apply to the children referred to in the first paragraph, and establish new ones.

2024, c. 6, s. 21.