Notice to Parents and Legal Guardians
OMAC’s after-school program offers your children with the opportunity to gain valuable skills in various martial arts and is considered exempt from child care licensing requirements otherwise required under the Ontario Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014 (the Act).
OMAC’s after-school program is considered as an “authorized recreational and skill building program” under the Act. As an authorized recreational and skill building program, OMAC must ensure that the following requirements are adhered to:
• We place an emphasis on martial arts training and other recreation as part of programming;
• We only accept enrollments for students who are at least four years of age or who will turn four years of age during the calendar year in which they first enroll; and
• The after-school program will be operated on weekdays for no more than one period of three or fewer consecutive hours each day.
It is also a requirement under the Act that OMAC provide each parent with a written disclosure that OMAC’s after-school program is not a licensed Child Care program. The Government of Ontario does not license this Child Care program.
We ask that you please confirm receipt of this notice.