Home Daycares (Provincial)
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Four Ontario inquests into child deaths in home daycares spanning almost 30 years have been unanimous in their call for more provincial oversight. 2 recent deaths this summer in unregulated sites have made child-care advocates say that it is time to take action. “In all of these cases, people recognized the lack of oversight as a significant problem,” said Andrea Calver of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care. It is devastating that this insight has come from more than one incident because we should have solved it the first time. Two 2 year olds died in a home daycare this past July and reasons for it are unknown. If we look back to daycare deaths in 1985, we can see that nothing much has changed since then to prevent them. The main reason is the …show more content…
In 1985, four children and their caretaker died of smoke inhalation in a Bolton house fire. The 1986 inquest called for mandatory fire prevention and insurance in unregulated home daycares, a well as more licensed options and federal tax breaks to make daycares more affordable for families. There were a lot more examples of similar incidents in the past couple years and nine of the inquests have been adequately followed up. The 1999 inquest into a toddler’s strangling on the strap of a car seat called for a review of the Day Nurseries Act, noting the absence of regulation is daycares where a majority of the children are take care of while their parents go to work. Education minister Liz Sandals says that the province’s child care legislation is currently under review. Andrea Calver says the province just needs to put the regulations they already have on homes on child daycares. “This is totally do-able,” Sandals said. “As these inquests show, no one in Ontario should be running a child-care
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Four Ontario inquests into child deaths in home daycares spanning almost 30 years have been unanimous in their call for more provincial oversight. 2 recent deaths this summer in unregulated sites have made child-care advocates say that it is time to take action. “In all of these cases, people recognized the lack of oversight as a significant problem,” said Andrea Calver of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care. It is devastating that this insight has come from more than one incident because we should have solved it the first time. Two 2 year olds died in a home daycare this past July and reasons for it are unknown. If we look back to daycare deaths in 1985, we can see that nothing much has changed since then to prevent them. The main reason is the …show more content…
In 1985, four children and their caretaker died of smoke inhalation in a Bolton house fire. The 1986 inquest called for mandatory fire prevention and insurance in unregulated home daycares, a well as more licensed options and federal tax breaks to make daycares more affordable for families. There were a lot more examples of similar incidents in the past couple years and nine of the inquests have been adequately followed up. The 1999 inquest into a toddler’s strangling on the strap of a car seat called for a review of the Day Nurseries Act, noting the absence of regulation is daycares where a majority of the children are take care of while their parents go to work. Education minister Liz Sandals says that the province’s child care legislation is currently under review. Andrea Calver says the province just needs to put the regulations they already have on homes on child daycares. “This is totally do-able,” Sandals said. “As these inquests show, no one in Ontario should be running a child-care