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Your Child Care Options

What are my child care options?

 

Type of Care

Maximum Number of Children in Care

License-Not-Required (LNR) Family Child Care (birth up to and including age 12)

2 children or a sibling group, other than the care provider's own

Registered License-Not-Required Family Child Care (birth up to and including age 12)

2 children or a sibling group, other than the care provider's own Registered with the Child Care Resource & Referral Program

Licensed Family Child Care (LFCC)
(birth up to and including age 12)

7 children including the care provider's own under the age of 12. No more than 5 children under the age of 5; 3 children under the age of 3, including 1 child the age of 1.

Group Child Care
(under 3 years of age)

Not more than 12 in a group

Group Child Care
(over 3 years of age)

Not more than 25 in a group

Preschool
(30 months to Kindergarten)

Not more than 20 in a group

School Age Child Care
(kindergarten up to and including age 12)

Not more than 20 to 25 children in a group

In Child's Own Home

Children in the family


These child care options are available in British Columbia . For more information contact the Child Care Resource and Referral Program in your area.

Family and Group child care are licensed through the Community Care Facilities Branch, Ministry of Health.