I have a young daughter, my partner is looking to go back to work. In an ideal world, she'd be a stay at home mum till our youngest goes to school but financial pressures mean we cannot do that.

I know daycares are regulated but I'm still really not at ease about the idea of leaving my baby with strangers all day.

Has anyone else faced this? What did you do to vet the places you looked at? Is there a rating scale I can look at for daycares? Do they get audited?

I just want my girl to be safe

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[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 1 week ago

both my brother and his wife are ECE teachers, they have to much of the same stuff as all primary schools (infact another two of our close friend group are primary teachers).

Visit a couple in your area and get the vibes.

When we lived in town we elected to not go to either of the ECE centers that my brother or his wife worked at, could create issues. But we did go to one that they did recommend. When we moved to the 'village' we were down to just a single choice (at the time). In a very small town/village we still see some of the ECE staff and some still remember our girls from 4/5 years ago.

If you can find that sort of community in a ECE centre then it is well worth it.