Exempting certain authorized recreational providers from their three-hour operating limit, improving access to select before and after school programs for families with school-age children
Enhancing health and safety protections in licensed child care settings, such as requirements to support contact tracing by local public health, new requirements for home-based child care and updates to the safe storage of potentially poisonous and hazardous items
Reducing regulatory/administrative burden on child care operators by removing redundant and unnecessary requirements for all providers. This includes the removal of duplicate requirements related to the collection of children's emergency contact information, allowing records and documents required by the regulation to be kept in digital format, and no longer requiring licensees to seek ministry approval for children 44 months and up to bring their own meals from home.
Read OMSSA's Submission on Proposed Regulatory Amendments to the CCEYA (November 2020) (PDF)
Read OMSSA's Submission on the Province's 5-Year Review of the CCEYA (August 2020) (PDF)