1.1. The object of this Act is to enhance the quality of educational childcare provided by childcare centres, day care centres, nursery schools and home childcare providers and of childcare provided by stop over centres so as to ensure the health and safety and foster the development and well-being of the children to whom childcare is provided.
A further object of this Act is to foster the harmonious development of childcare by facilitating the development of childcare centres, having regard to the rules relating to grants.
1989, c. 59, s. 2; 1996, c. 16, s. 2; 1997, c. 58, s. 60.