Accreditation Funding
Child Care Accreditation Funding for Family Day Home Agencies - Information and Forms
Child Care Accreditation Funding for Out-of-School Care Programs - Information and Forms
Learn more about accreditation:
The Alberta Association for the Accreditation of Early Learning and Care Services - The Alberta Association for the Accreditation of Early Learning and Care Services (AELCS) provides information and services about accreditation standards and processes for day care programs, out-of-school care programs and family day home agencies in Alberta. AELCS also evaluates and awards child care programs that have successfully met the standards of excellence. The AELCS website has the latest information about accreditation and a list of all accredited child care programs.
Asset Sale Accreditation Site Visits
Accreditation site visits are required when there is an asset sale of an accredited child care program to ensure the new program owners maintain the commitment to adhere to the accreditation standards.
New accredited child care programs are responsible for the cost of an asset sale accreditation site visit, if the program did not have a site visit six months before the sale. The cost of an asset sale site visit is $3,764 for a licensed day care program/contracted family day home agency and $2,869 for a licensed out-of-school care program, payable to the Accreditation of Early Learning and Care Services (AELCS).
To assist programs with the site visit cost, the Quality Funding Grant will be expanded to allow eligible child care programs to use the grant to pay the accreditation agency for the cost of their asset sale accreditation site visit.
Questions on the Quality Funding Grant may be directed to the Alberta Child Care Accreditation Funding Program at 1-800-661-9754.
To book your asset sale accreditation site visit, contact AELCS: 1-877-552-2227 (toll-free)
The Alberta Resource Centre for Quality Enhancement – for early learning and care services - The Alberta Resource Centre for Quality Enhancement (ARCQE) enhances best practices, builds capacity in the sector and helps prepare child care providers for the accreditation process. Through ongoing needs assessment and quality enhancement resources (such as workshops, in-service training opportunities, policy templates, resource materials and information on child development and best practice), service providers are better prepared to provide higher quality services and meet accreditation standards.
Quality Grant funding may be used to acquire services from ARCQE.
