Child Care Registry Program: For Parents and Home Child Care Providers

Parents

Are you looking for child care?

Do you know what your options are?

Do you know how to screen a child care provider?

Have you been put on a long waiting list for licensed care, but need child care soon?

Parents, we will help you find your way through the City of Toronto’s child care system, locate licensed child care providers, look for unlicensed home child care providers, screen child care providers and establish/maintain a parent-caregiver relationship.

Call our knowledgeable staff for a personal consultation on your unique situation.  We have access to hundreds of resources on everything from licensed day care to home child care to babysitting services.

Home Child Care Providers

Do you want to take care of children in your home?

Are you a stay-at-home parent who would like to start a child care business?

Need help in setting your rates or finding children to care for?

Overwhelmed by the thought of starting a business, but still interested in providing home child care?

We support home child care providers in starting a child care business, advertising for clients, setting rates, preparing a safe home environment for children, planning activities for children and with information on how to become a licensed child care provider. 

Child Care Issues: Telephone Help Line - (416) 259-0333

NDFR operates a telephone help line to provide parents and child care providers with a place to discuss their child care issues. Call us with your questions about daycare, challenges you face with daycare, running your daycare business and we will do our best to help you.

Resource Book:   A Guide to Home Day Care, 4th Edition

This book, published by NDFR, is full of useful information to establish and maintain a healthy parent-caregiver relationship.  In easy to understand terms, it explains your child care choices, children's needs in daycare, how to start a home day care business, finding the right caregiver and getting your family ready for daycare.  Most parents and child care providers find the sample forms extremely useful: emergency telephone number form, child information form, medication consent form, home safety checklist, telephone interview form and a Parent-Caregiver Agreement.

Find this book in all branches of the Toronto Public Library

New in 2012:

A Guide to Home Daycare is sold out in hard cover but is now available on disk or by email.

Cost: FREE by email or $5.00 to receive a disk by mail.

Internet Special:     Send a cheque for $5.00 payable to “Next Door Family Resources” and we will send you the book on disk containing all of the sample forms from the book for you to use on your computer.

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Program Hours and Contact Information

Telephone: (416) 259-0333

The Child Care Registry is open:

Monday and Friday, 9 am - 4:30 pm

Holidays:

This program closes for two weeks in the summer, usually the last two weeks of July and again in December, usually the last two weeks of the month.

Updated: March 2012