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qualified to accept children.
Parents pay the agency and the
agency pays the care providers (at a
rate of $23 per child per day). Parents I
are given background information on
a home before a child is placed there
for care. "I don't place anyone
anywhere that the parent doesn't
want," Piluke says. As in Perth, all
homes are screened and inspected
regularly. Also as in Perth, the care
providers can borrow from the toy
lending library and can also have
access to equipment like high chairs,
gates, cots and car seats that are
required for the safety of the children
under care. Having a licenced agency
book the space gives credibility to
the program, Piluke says.
Hn home day care can provide
greater flexibility than fixed
location centres, Piluke says. The
hours of the care provider can be
more flexible and the provider can
also take infants, a service that no
licenced facility in Huron now
provides.
In-home care givers can also
provide weekend care or care at night
for parents who have to work shift
work, says Cox. There are also
problems for parents who only work
part-time and problems with children
coming home from school who need
care for a few hours, all of which can
be helped more by in-home care
givers than through regular
institutionalized day care.
In Perth, Cox says, the home child
care program has been in operation
for a year now. Two homes now have
children. Others have been screened
and approved but there is a shortage
of children for them.
The Drew Community Childcare
Centre also faces a problem with too
few children and is currently
undertaking a study to look into the
future of the facility. Licenced for 16
children year round and an extra 15
from May to October, the centre now
serves about 10 children regularly,
some days only six. While the
number fluctuates there still must be
at least two staff members present
Grace Lennox thinks cost has
something to do with the decline in
use. Costs are set by Ministry
standards. There are subsidies
available for all licenced agencies but
to qualify, parents must not have
liquid assets. This discriminates