CLOSURES

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The Home Daycare will be closed for the following 11 days without fee reduction:

New Years Day, NB Family Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, NB Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Remembrance Day, Christmas and Boxing Day.

These closure days will be included on the closure notices that go home three times a year. Closure dates will also be posted on the Parent Board and in the communication app.

 

Please mark your calendars.

 

Illness and Personal Days

The Daycare may close for personal and sick days periodically throughout the year.

I will try my best to include personal days in the closure notices that will be sent home, unless an unavoidable appointment or situation occurs, then notice will be given as soon as possible. I will try to take no more than 6 personal days a year.

I may close the Daycare early around 1:30 pm or 2:00 pm twice a year, if necessary, for appointments, rather than close for a full day, to limit the disruption and inconvenience to families and their children. These days and times will also be noted on the closure notices.

Childcare can sometimes be an illness-prone profession. My family and I are healthy and have great immune systems, but I am still a person and illnesses do occur. Notices for illness closures will be given as soon as possible, via text, or phone calls, updates will be made in the communication app, and a closure sign will be placed on the daycare entrance door.

CLOSURES, Illness and Personal Days continued…

In my childcare career, I have closed unexpectedly due to illness for a total of 9 days, 4 of which were during the peak covid pandemic. I strive to offer quality, safe and reliable childcare, and illness closures are not made lightly.

If I need to close the Daycare unexpectedly, it will be for safety reasons, because I do not feel I can provide a safe and quality standard of care and to prevent the illness from spreading.   

 

Vacation Closures

The Daycare will be closed in December yearly for 8 business days, as well as Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Years Day.

The Daycare will also be closed yearly for 6-10 days over the spring and summer. These days are typically spread out to create 3 or 4 day long weekends, or a day added to a 3 day long weekend to create a 4 day long weekend and rarely taken together consecutively.

Closure notices will be sent home within the first two weeks of January, May, and September, this allows me to include the scheduling of appointments for my family into my vacation days and results in fewer personal day closures.

 

Backup Care

Each family must have a backup care plan that you can implement if the Daycare is closed for planned or unplanned closures.

Creative Minds Daycare does not provide a back up care provider.

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