Licensed Daycares in Coombs, BC

Daycare & Childcare in Coombs

If you want centre-based care in Coombs, you have two options. Everything else here is a dayhome, and that ratio is the most useful thing on this page. Candace's Family Child Care on Alberni Highway, Harmony Family Child Care on Station Road, and Lil'tiggers Day Home on Grafton Avenue all operate in a caregiver's home with a small group, which is a genuinely different proposition from a centre and suits some children far better than a room of twenty. It also means fewer backup staff when someone is sick.

What to know about childcare in Coombs

A Child's P.L.A.C.E. on Gibbs Road and Gillian's Care on Station Road are the two centre-based options. None of the five carries a single Google review. Not one.

Coombs is an unincorporated community in the Regional District of Nanaimo, better known to most of British Columbia for the goats on the market roof than for anything else, and with a population in the hundreds rather than the thousands it is remarkable that five licensed programs operate here at all. Parksville is about ten minutes east. That is where the real depth is, and where most Coombs families end up looking when a dayhome closes or a spot doesn't open.

We hold no age-group data for any Coombs listing, which is normal for our British Columbia records. So we can't tell you who takes infants. Both fee programs apply here as everywhere in the province: the Child Care Fee Reduction Initiative lowers what the provider charges you, and the Affordable Child Care Benefit is an income-tested subsidy you apply for directly. Ask each dayhome whether it participates in the first one, because participation is per-provider and not automatic.