Find a Child Care Provider
Are you...
- Working or attending school full or part time?
- Having difficulty finding suitable child care?
- Needing child care in your own neighbourhood or close to work?
Selecting quality child care is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. Take the right first step...
A highly trained, friendly child care professional will help guide you through the next steps. They will need the following information from you to enable them to search our database of child care providers. Please provide this information via the form at the bottom of this page.
- Your name, address, phone number and e-mail address or fax number if applicable.
- How many children you require care for.
- Their ages.
- The location where you would prefer the child care facility.
- The days and hours you need care.
- If you have school age children who will need to be dropped off or picked up from school, then they will require the school they are attending.
- Does your child require extra support?
- Where you heard about our service.
- And anything else you feel is important in your search for quality child care.
How we can help...
- By providing information, resources and consultation that will assist you in making informed child care choices.
- By providing free referrals to child care facilities in your area that offer the type of child care services that you need.
- By providing referrals to other community agencies and services, including child care subsidy and supported child care.
Child Care referrals from our database...
- A criminal record check for anyone in the home who is over the age of twelve.
- A current first aid certificate
- A doctor's letter confirming that the provider is both physically and emotionally able to care for children.
- Two character references from someone who is not a relative, and who has observed the applicant interacting with children.
- If the provider is renting the home, a letter from the landlord giving permission for the applicant to provide care for children on the premises.
- A home safety assessment conducted by our CCRR program staff.
- Child Care Resource & Referral strongly recommends careproviders carry liability insurance coverage.
- Require 20 hours of Family Child Care Training before or during the first 2 years on our registry, and 6 hours per year after that.
Statement of Responsibility
Child Care Resource & Referral programs provide referrals, not recommendations, to child care facilities. We can provide you with names of persons or facilities that may be suitable for your child care needs. It is your responsibility to determine whether the care provider meets your specific requirements. A good match for you and your child can only be determined by you.
To locate a CCRR in your community in British Columbia, you can:
- use the search function on the homepage
- call Enquiry BC at 604-660-2421 (lower mainland) or
1-800-663-7867 (elsewhere in BC)
If you are looking for child care in the United States, please refer to www.childcareaware.org