do you need special training to open up a childcare business?
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It is different with each state.  You need to look at your state government website to see if there is info or who to contact.  In Louisiana, to be a director, you need either 1 or 2 years of experience working in a daycare.  The building has to meet certain specifications, and they have square foot per child requirements.  Also, there are worker/child ratios that are smaller for younger children and larger for older children.\n\nAgain, find your state government website and start there on your search for the regulations.
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there is different requirements, depending on what type of business it is.  a good place to start is at a book store, like Barnes&Noble, they should have a book whith guidelines.
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You may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm. It covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1551801132/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/096780101X/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0943135087/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid\n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0943135532/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid\n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html\n\nGood luck!
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Try this website to start.  You'll need licenses.\n\nhttp://www.state.il.us/dcfs/daycare/index.shtml
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In Ohio, you contact this agency if you wish to start a daycare facility\n\nOhio Department of Job & Family Services \nBureau of Child Care and Development \n255 East Main Street, 3rd Floor \nColumbus, OH 43215-5222 \nPhone: 614-466-1043\nFax: 614-466-0164 or 614-728-6803\nWeb site: http://jfs.ohio.gov/cdc/\nE-mail: childcare@odjfs.state.oh.us \n\nThe first step is to prepare a business plan. Even if you will not be applying for a bank loan, a business plan helps you to think through your business - what it needs, who it will benefit, how much it will cost, and what is its potential. Here are free business plans on childcare business that you may want to look into:\n\nhttp://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-30.doc\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/CDCPLAN.pdf\nhttp://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/sbic/bplans.htm \n\nYou may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm It covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html\n\nAs for the licenses and requirements in your state, the Administration for Children and Families provide a state by state listing of contacts for licensing and regulations governing child care businesses:\nhttp://www.nccic.org/statedata/dirs/regoffic.html\n\nFor information on the Headstart program in Ohio, visit the following websites\n\nOhio Head Start Association, Inc. http://www.ohsai.org/\nhttp://www.cdfohio.org/legislation_programs/early_childhood/head_start/default.asp
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1. Create a website and get it listed in LOCAL directories and search engines. There are many sites that list the daycare in a particular area, and you need to be in all their lists\n2. Advertise or get listed in local parenting or family magazines. Some have an issue dedicated solely to business listings and you need to be there\n3. Put up signs in the neighborhood during allowed times (mostly weekends) that a new daycare center will be open and accepting enrollments\n4. Word of mouth is still the best. Parents talk to other parents asking for advice on what's the best daycare.\n5. If there are local listservs or mailing groups for parents in your area, actively participate and become an integral and respected part of the community. The members are your target audience, and you need to show a good impression\n6. Distribute flyers to where moms work or congregate. Check if you can put a flyer in local preschools.\n7. Some pediatricians offer a cork board in the waiting where all sorts of ads are placed. If the doctors in your area have this, be sure to put a small flyer advertising your business.
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Here are free business plans on childcare business:\n\nhttp://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-30.doc\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/CDCPLAN.pdf\nhttp://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/sbic/bplans.htm \n\nYou may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm \n\nIt covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html
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You'll have to start by working with Child Care Services. To start, you have to purchase a licensing packet and attend a free orientation class (pre-registration required). These are held monthly. Once you get all that done, then you can start working through the packet. Depending on what kind of day care center you want to provide (group day care, family day care, or child care learning center), click on the "Rules and Regulations" link on the left side of the page via the link below. \n\nGood luck!
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It is hard to find grants to start a business. The most you can probably get is something like $500 for some toys or materials for your daycare from the state, but you need to prove that those materials are essential. Other than that, there's nothing.\n\nUnlike the myths that some perpetuate, federal government and even private foundations hardly give grant money for a for-profit business. And yes, grants mean PAPERWORK - lots and lots of it, that is why a cottage industry of grant writers was born.\n\nNonetheless, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.\n\nGo to CFDA.gov --> search by Beneficiary --> Choose among the dropdown the type of beneficiary that you may qualify (e.g. small business, women, minorities). And you will find NONE for starting a childcare business.\n\nEven if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently. But still the info is the same - hardly any grants for starting a for profit business.\n\nEven SBA does NOT give out grants. From the SBA website http://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html \n\n"The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments."\n\nMost of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program \n\nGrants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs \n\nFor private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online. It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." Entrepreneurs are apparently not one of them, so I take it they also don't have listings of private foundations who give grants to would-be entrepreneurs.\n\nI suggest you start out by preparing your business plan so you can determine how much money you would need and other details of your business. Here are free business plans on childcare business:\n\nhttp://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-30.doc\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/CDCPLAN.pdf\nhttp://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/sbic/bplans.htm \n\nYou may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm \n\nIt covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth inf
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Yes.  An employer can set any training requirements or continuing education requirements for any position.  Unless you have a contract that says otherwise they are under no obligation to pay for the training itself or for the time you spend in training.
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I'm not an expert but I'd guess that you and the other staff would need all the necessary care qualifications and health and safety qualifications. The person running it would probably need some training in management. Your local council would probably give you a grant and some advice. Social Services would give additional funding.\nMy mother ran a private school for disabled children.
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http://www.grants.gov/\n\nfor special needs child care you will need to have nursing staff and more than likely a doctor on call...therapists for children and mostly equipment to facilitate care and play.  Standers gait trainers wheelchairs feeder seats. wedges etc\n\nYou will need ALOT of research to specific qualifications but you need to write up a business plan for sure.  You need to decide what kind of children you want to work with..special needs in general you will need everything...children with AIDS come with a wide variety of issues...blind children require alternate special care.  There are LARGE grants available for even for profit places.  You may want to consider where there is a pediatric rehab or therapy office in your town and build (or rent) nearby to allow children to be treated closely as a convenience for children.  You will need to learn to deal with IFSPs and how that translates to cost.
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You can start by reading free business plans on childcare business - they give you an overview of the industry, and what strategies you must take to succeed in the business:\n\nhttp://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-30.doc\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/CDCPLAN.pdf\nhttp://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/sbic/bplans.htm \n\nYou may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm \nIt covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html\n\nWith regards to licensing, contact this agency:\n\nDepartment of Children & Families \nChild Care Regulation Office \n1317 Winewood Blvd. Building 6 \nRoom 389A \nTallahassee, FL 32399-0700 \nPhone: 850-488-4900 \nFax: 850-488-9584 \nWeb site: http://www.myflorida.com/childcare/
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To make a success of self-employment you have to be fired up with something that you are passionate about or which uses your skills to the full. I honestly believe that if you are asking for ideas, then you are not ready for self-employment.\n\nIf you want to work with children, why not qualify as a nursery nurse or childcare worker. Nurseries and pre-schools are crying out for qualified staff; and if you find it's for you, then you can consider becoming an independent childminder.
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why don't u introduce reservation at pre nursery itself???????\n\nif u do that no need to have all 16 years of education and realising no seat available later...
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A daycare is one business I have never started my self...But I can tell you that you need to have plenty of insurance and all the proper licenseing.  If you want to find a counselor that can give you good advice on the subject chek out www.score.org