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Become an Early Childhood Educator

Coming soon: My ECE Registry digital platform! Learn more about My ECE Registry , a new and exciting online tool coming in 2025.

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Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) play a critical role in providing education and care for young children. To work as an ECE or ECE Assistant in a licensed child care facility in B.C. you must be certified by the ECE Registry.

Learn about the certificate types and requirements, and how to become certified or renew your certificate.

Certificate types

  • Explore which ECE certificate you may qualify for based on your education and experience

Prepare and apply for certification

  • Find your application pathway and apply based on where you completed your early childhood education training program

Maintain your certification

  • Renew your certificate by completing the appropriate application
  • If your contact information or name has changed, complete and submit a  change of information form (PDF, 1MB)

ECE profession in B.C.

  • Learn more about the ECE profession in B.C ., including legal requirements for working in the field, professional development topics, and resources
  • Find an educational institution with an ECE training program that is recognized by the ECE Registry
  • Learn more about ECE post-secondary program recognition

Complaints and investigations

  • Make a complaint  about a certified ECE or ECE Assistant
  • Learn about the investigation process

Validate a certificate

  • Validate a certificate  online with an ECE or ECE Assistant’s last name, certificate (registration) number and certificate expiry date

​ Contact information ​ ​

Contact the ece registry.

Victoria: 250-356-6501

Toll-free: 1-888 338-6622

[email protected]

PO Box 9961 STN PROV GOVT Victoria, BC V8W 9R4

Duty to report

If you think a child is being abused or neglected, you have the legal duty to  report your concern  to a child welfare worker.

Phone  1-800-663-9122  any time.

The B.C. Public Service acknowledges the territories of First Nations around B.C. and is grateful to carry out our work on these lands. We acknowledge the rights, interests, priorities, and concerns of all Indigenous Peoples - First Nations, Métis, and Inuit - respecting and acknowledging their distinct cultures, histories, rights, laws, and governments.

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Skills Immigration

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  • Entry Level and Semi-Skilled (ELSS)

International Graduate

International post-graduate.

  • How to apply to a Skills Immigration stream (including using the Express Entry BC option)

Construction

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  • Your job offer must be classified as NOC TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3
  • Be qualified to perform the duties of the job
  • Have a minimum of two years of full-time (or full-time equivalent) work experience at NOC TEER 0, 1, 2, or 3
  • Meet minimum language requirements
  • Have a wage offer in line with B.C. wage rates for the occupation
  • Show you can support yourself and your dependants

Eligibility 

  • An indeterminate* (no defined end date), full-time job offer from a B.C. public health authority
  • A letter from a health authority or midwife practice group that confirms that you are a physician, nurse practitioner, or midwife in British Columbia
  • Meet the education, training, experience and qualification requirements outlined by the public health authority

Entry Level and Semi-Skilled

  • Your occupation must be on the list of eligible occupations for your sector. All ELSS-eligible occupations are classified as  NOC  TEER 4 or 5
  • For the  Northeast Development Region  of B.C., you may apply if you are working in any  NOC  TEER category 4 or 5  occupation, other than live-in caregivers
  • Have been working full-time for your employer for a minimum of nine consecutive months before registering.
  • Be qualified to do the job offered to you, including meeting any certification or registration requirements in B.C.
  • Meet minimum language and education requirements

Eligible ELSS occupations

  • Have completed a degree, diploma or certificate from an eligible post-secondary institution in Canada in the past three years
  • management occupations (NOC TEER 0) are not eligible under this stream
  • Be qualified to work in your occupation in B.C.
  • Master’s degrees in an eligible program in the natural, applied or health sciences disciplines from a B.C. post-secondary institution. Please see the  BC PNP IPG Programs of Study in Eligible Fields  for more information
  • Doctoral degrees in any field of study from a public B.C. post-secondary institution
  • PhD students in any field of study who have been admitted to candidacy at a public B.C. post-secondary institution

How to apply to a Skills Immigration stream including the Express Entry BC (EEBC) option

  • Choose your stream and if you will use the EEBC option 
  • Wait for an invitation to apply
  • Permanent Residence

1.Choose your stream and if you will use the EEBC option

3.wait for an invitation, 5.bc pnp nomination.

  • Visit the  Nominees page
  • Refer to the  Post-Nomination Guide

6.Permanent residence

Program priorities.

  • The job offer must be for an indeterminate, full-time job in one of the priority construction occupations
  • Your trade certificate must correspond with the job you have been offered

Priority construction occupations:

Priority healthcare occupations:.

  • the job offer must be in one of the priority technology occupations
  • the job offer must be at least one year in duration (365 days)
  • there must be at least 120 calendar days remaining on the job offer at the time of application

Priority technology occupations:

Priority veterinary care occupations:, pilot programs.

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