{"id":5125,"date":"2023-09-26T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T03:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/do-i-need-a-license-to-open-a-playgroup\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:11:45","slug":"do-i-need-a-license-to-open-a-playgroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/do-i-need-a-license-to-open-a-playgroup\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I need a license to open a playgroup?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5125\" class=\"elementor elementor-5125 elementor-3056\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dc11d44 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dc11d44\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5783a61\" data-id=\"5783a61\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d228f39 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d228f39\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>You don&#8217;t need a special license to open a Playgroup, you just need to register your business.<\/strong><\/p><p>According to the EDB&#8217;s reply, Playgroup does not fall within the scope of the Child Care Services Ordinance and therefore does not require a special permit or licence. Private educational institutions only need to be registered as a business in order to open classes and enroll students.<\/p><p>However, it should be noted that if your Playgroup provides playgroups that aim to promote the intellectual development of young children or develop physical and social skills, it will not fall within the scope of the EDB&#8217;s regulation.<\/p><p>If a child is accompanied by a parent, he or she may circumvent the restriction on &#8220;child-keeping premises&#8221; under the Child Care Services Ordinance.<\/p><p>Child Care Services Ordinance (Cap. 243) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elegislation.gov.hk\/hk\/cap243!zh-Hant-HK\">https:\/\/www.elegislation.gov.hk\/hk\/cap243!zh-Hant-HK<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t need a special license to open a Playgroup, you just need to register your business. According to the EDB&#8217;s reply, Playgroup does not fall within the scope of the Child Care Services Ordinance and therefore does not require a special permit or licence. Private educational institutions only need to be registered as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-incorporation-of-a-limited-company","category-incorporation-of-unlimited-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5127,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/5127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}