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Start your own Child Day Care Centre!

For parents, providing and looking after their kids is their first priority. Most parents have a demanding 9 – 5 job and can’t always be with their youngsters 24/7. It is impossible. They don’t have the time to be in two places at the same time. They need a place where they can drop their kids off for the day so that they can go to work and focus on being productive.

Many women around the world are set on becoming independent business women. They want to earn a big income but still have the free time to pay attention to themselves and their own kids. Starting a Child Day Care Centre can offer you all these things.

Why start a Child Day Care Centre?

The demand for safe Child Day Care Centres is growing each day.
More and more grown-ups start families and need someone to look after their children while they are at work.
They need a place where their children can learn new things, develop skills and be taken care of all at the same time.
They need a place where their kids can make new friends and play in a safe environment.

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What will your job as a Child Day Care owner be?

You will have to make sure all the children get their required attention;
The play area must be safe at all times;
There must always be supervision, on all the kids;
You will have to get extra people with the right qualifications to help you with the children;
You must plan educational activities for the kids to help them develop their skills; and
You need to correspond with the parents to let them know how their children are performing.

Things you should know...

When you decide to start a Child Day Care Centre, you need to have a plan. You need to know what permits you have to apply for in order to open your Day Care Centre. You have to send enquiries to other day care centres about their tariffs so that you don’t overcharge your clients, which would result in your business running dead. You should know where to advertise so that you can get a lot of parents enrolling their kids. And, of course, you must have a plan of action on how you are going to keep the children busy and what you are going to teach them.

As you can see, starting your own Child Day Care Centre is hard work but as soon as you have the right qualifications and the skills you need to make it a successful business, you will have lots of fun and earn the rewards.

What qualifications do you need?

You need a qualification in Child Day Care and you need to have business skills. So, where do you get these qualifications and business skills? Well, that’s easy: just give us a call!

College SA offers the following courses in Child Day Care: