S-4.1.1 - Educational Childcare Act

Section 2 Disposition versions

2022-09-01

2. Every child has a right to quality personalized educational childcare services from birth until the child’s admission to preschool or elementary school education or, failing that, until the first day of the school calendar of the school year, within the meaning of the Education Act (chapter I-13.3), following the that in which the child reaches six years of age. A child who ceases to attend school after being admitted also has a right to educational childcare services until the first day of the school calendar of the school year following that in which the child reaches six years of age.

The above right must be exercised taking into account the availability, organization and resources of educational childcare providers. It must also be exercised having regard to the rules set out in this Act relating to access to educational childcare services, including the obligation for those providers to fill their service supply using exclusively the registrations entered in the single window for access to educational childcare services, and the rules relating to subsidies, including those concerning the allocation of subsidized childcare spaces.

The implementation of that right is reinforced by the obligation imposed on the Minister to take the measures referred to in section 93.0.3 so that the educational childcare service supply in each territory meets the demand for such services.

2005, c. 47, s. 2; 2020, c. 1, s. 312; 2022, c. 9, s. 97; 2022, c. 9, s. 2.

2022-04-12

2. This Act applies to childcare centres, day care centres and recognized home educational childcare providers and to home educational childcare coordinating offices accredited by the Minister.

This Act does not apply to

(1)  persons who provide or offer to provide occasional organized childcare services, in a health or social services institution, in a commercial establishment, at a fair or exhibition or during a special event, to children whose parents are on site and can be reached if needed;

(2)  day camp or vacation camp operators; or

(3)  school service centres or private educational institutions that provide childcare at school within the meaning of the Education Act (chapter I-13.3) or the Act respecting private education (chapter E-9.1);

(4)  public bodies and community organizations that provide temporary childcare as part of their mandate to support and assist families or as part of a specific activity involving parents or children.

2005, c. 47, s. 2; 2020, c. 1, s. 312; 2022, c. 9, s. 97.

2020-06-15

2. This Act applies to childcare centres, day care centres and recognized home childcare providers and to home childcare coordinating offices accredited by the Minister.

This Act does not apply to

(1)  persons who provide or offer to provide occasional organized childcare services, in a health or social services institution, in a commercial establishment, at a fair or exhibition or during a special event, to children whose parents are on site and can be reached if needed;

(2)  day camp or vacation camp operators; or

(3)  school service centres or private educational institutions that provide childcare at school within the meaning of the Education Act (chapter I-13.3) or the Act respecting private education (chapter E-9.1);

(4)  public bodies and community organizations that provide temporary childcare as part of their mandate to support and assist families or as part of a specific activity involving parents or children.

2005, c. 47, s. 2; 2020, c. 1, s. 312.

2006-06-01

2. This Act applies to childcare centres, day care centres and recognized home childcare providers and to home childcare coordinating offices accredited by the Minister.

This Act does not apply to

(1)  persons who provide or offer to provide occasional organized childcare services, in a health or social services institution, in a commercial establishment, at a fair or exhibition or during a special event, to children whose parents are on site and can be reached if needed;

(2)  day camp or vacation camp operators; or

(3)  school boards or private educational institutions that provide childcare at school within the meaning of the Education Act (chapter I-13.3) or the Act respecting private education (chapter E-9.1);

(4)  public bodies and community organizations that provide temporary childcare as part of their mandate to support and assist families or as part of a specific activity involving parents or children.

2005, c. 47, s. 2.