Write Your Own Daycare Contract

Follow these simple guidelines to write your own daycare contract!

Your daycare contract does not have to be anything fancy. Use any word processing program to type up an agreement between a family entering your daycare and you.

Check your county regulations and see if they have any required information for you to include in a daycare contract. Then determine which rules of your daycare are extremely important for you to be able to keep order and keep professional and include those in your contract.

Here is a list of some items to include on the contract:

• The family's name
• Your full name and business name, if you have one
• Fees charged specifically for this family
• Hours agreed upon
• Start date
• End date, if applicable
• Parents signatures
• Your signature
• Date contract is signed

Include any other personal policies you may have come up with.

Your contract only needs to be one or two pages long. Any longer than that and your families will not read it properly. The contract has a limited number of items required, but each item is very important. What you include on your contract page is everything you and your new family have agreed upon. The signatures at the bottom of the page indicate that everyone understands and commits to this agreement...this contract.

You should have two copies of the signed contract. One for your files and one to give the newly contracted family.

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