All Day Care Centres and Day Care Providers must be licenced and registered in order to care for children. To be licenced or registered, the Day Care Centres and Providers must be compliant with the Children Act 1998 and the Day Care Centre Regulations 1999 .The Child Care Regulation Programme is the Section within the Department of Health that licences Day Care Centres and Registers Day Care Providers (persons who care for up to three children in their home).
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The Child Care Regulation Programme (CCRP) goals are to elevate, protect and promote the field of early childhood development, and ensure the health, safety and best possible care of children while in child care settings.
Our team consists of a Programme Manager, Administrator and Intake Officer, Education Officer, Child Care Regulation Officer for day care centres, and Child Care Regulation Officer for day care providers. The CCRP Officers have backgrounds in early childhood education, worked in roles related to child development or worked in day care centres. These varied backgrounds allow CCRP to focus on health and safety in addition to quality and development when supporting day care providers and centres.
Full inspections for the relicencing and re-registration of our child care settings are completed yearly. Regular monitoring visits occur throughout the year, however, to check on compliance with the legislation and Standards.
To ensure compliance the Programme will investigate concerns raised about a Centre or Provider. To raise a concern please contact: childcare@gov.bm or call our intake coordinator on 278-4900.
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For lists of registered Day Care Centres and Providers, and additional resources visit: https://www.gov.bm/child-care-information-parents
For Day Care Centre Forms visit: https://www.gov.bm/day-care-centre-forms
For Day Care Provider Forms visit: https://www.gov.bm/day-care-provider-forms
For more information on Education and Training in Early Childhood visit: https://www.gov.bm/child-care-training-and-education