How to Produce a Home Daycare Contract

When you are starting a home daycare business, it feels like you have a million things to do. Nothing is as important during your preparation as the home daycare contract. Your home daycare contract is the blue print for how you will run your home daycare business. If you throw it together in an hour and present it to your clients, you will regret it. Your home daycare contract protects you from some of the things that make a home daycare business a hard venture for many. If you are protected with your contract, you can feel better about doing what you love, working with the children.

Below, is an outline of how my home daycare contract is set up. You can change and manipulate it as you like so that your home daycare contract reflects you.

Home Daycare Contract Section 1:

State the name of your home daycare business at the top of the contract

State in a few paragraphs what it is that you provide in your home daycare. In the first section of my home daycare contract, I talk about my priorities, my passions, my personal information like my age and my family make-up. I tell them how I will provide their children with a safe atmosphere and all of my credentials.

Remember that the more you talk about yourself personally and what you can give them as clients, the more they will want to be a part of your home daycare program. Since, later in your home daycare contract, you will state a slew of rules and guidelines, now is the time to sell them on you personally and your home daycare program.

Home Daycare Contract Section 2:

I started my second section of my home daycare contract out with this sentence:

As a home childcare professional, I will provide:

Here is where you will list the things you can offer them in your home daycare. After each one, talk about how you will provide that to them while in your home daycare. I will list for you the services on my home daycare contract. You will need to write a small paragraph under each one stating how you will provide each. I have given you an example with my first service as it appears in my home daycare contract.