Open Data

Child Care Information

Description

This data set reflects child care programs in Alberta licensed under the Child Care Licensing Act (prior to February 2021) and under the Early Learning and Child Care Act (February 2021 and after).

 

Data prior to February 2021 included reflects child care programs in Alberta licensed under the Child Care Licensing Act. Program types under the Child Care Licensing Act included day care programs, out-of-school care programs, preschool programs, group family child care, family day homes (approved by a licensed family day home agency), and innovative child care programs.

 

In February 2021, child care licensing changed from program-based to facility-based under the Early Learning and Child Care Act. There are now four types of licenses: facility-based programs, group family child care programs, family day homes (approved by a licensed family day home agency), and innovative child care programs. A facility-based program can have any of the three program types under a single license: day care, out of school care and/or preschool programs. Following this change, no new licenses could be issued for innovative programs, however, existing programs were allowed to continue to operate indefinitely under the former Child Care Licensing Act. Family day home agencies and group family child care programs were not impacted by this change.

 

Please Note: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related mitigation measures, many of the listed child care programs were not open or able to operate at full capacity.

 

• Program ID: a unique identifier for each program. Note that due to the change in program types in February 2021, Program IDs from March 2021 forward are not directly comparable to historical data.

 

• Program Name/Address/Postal Code/Phone Number: The name, address, postal code and phone number of the child care program recorded in the Ministry’s Child Care Information System.

 

• Type of Program: child care program types include: day care, out of school care, preschool, family day home, group family child care and innovative child care. Note that due to change in February 2021, day care, out of school care and preschool care are grouped as facility-based programs.

 

• Day Care Y/N; Out of School Care Y/N; Preschool Care Y/N: indicates the type of programs located at a location with a facility-based license. Note that this only applies to data from March 2021 onward.

 

• Capacity: indicates the maximum number of licensed/approved spaces a program is approved.

 

• Inspection Date: indicates the date, within the last 18 months, that an inspection was completed by a Child and Family Services licensing officer or contract manager.

 

• Inspection Reason: indicates the type of inspection visit. Licensing Officers visit child care programs for a number of reasons including scheduled inspections and complaint investigations.

 

• Non-Compliance: identifies the non-compliance that was issued to a licensed child care program during an inspection as per the Early Learning and Child Care Regulation. Non-compliances issued to a family day home agency reflect Agency non-compliances as well as family day home provider non-compliances, identified during the Region’s review of 10 per cent of the agency’s providers.

 

• Enforcement Action: identifies the type of enforcement action issued.

 

• Remedy Date: identifies when the non-compliance was remedied by the child care program/agency.

 

Updated

August 25, 2023

Tags
accreditation child child care day care daycare licensing out-of-school care
Resources

Title and Dataset Information

Date Modified

2023-08-25

Update Frequency

Quarterly (every 3 months)

Publisher / Creator Information

Creator
Children and Family Services
Publisher

Children's Services

Subject Information

Topic
Education - Early Childhood to Grade 12 Families and Children Government Population and Demography Society and Communities
Start Date

2014-04-01

End Date

2023-06-30

Spatial Coverage

Alberta

Resource Dates

Date Created

2016-01-15

Date Added to catalogue

2016-01-14T23:44:23.381108

Date Issued

2016-01-15

Date Modified

2023-08-25

Audience information

Caregivers Children Educators General Public Government Nonprofit/Voluntary Organizations Parents Researchers

Language

English (Canadian)

Identifiers

Usage / Licence

Usage Considerations

Note: Child care programing changed from program-based to facility-based in February 2021.

 

A facility-based program can have any of the three program types: day care, out of school care and/or preschool programs. As a result of this change, data from March 2021 forward are not directly comparable to historical data. Also note that Program IDs contained within these files were also impacted.

 

For additional information, please see the accompanying Usage Considerations Document.

Licence

Open Government Licence - Alberta

Contact

Contact Name

Regulatory Compliance, Quality Assurance & Business Supports Division

Contact Email

cs.childcare@gov.ab.ca