Interior of the daycare centre shut down by the province. (CBC)

Some parents in Ottawa's Barrhaven area will have to find a new daycare centre after the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services closed theirs down for health reasons.

The ministry also ordered the daycare centre's owner to stay away from the property.

Taped to the door of the Little Angels Academy, on Cedarview Road on Monday morning was a four-page notice from the ministry that says the centre's operator, Razia Siddiqui:

• Failed to provide enough food to meet the nutritional requirements of the children enrolled there.
• Failed to plan a program that met the children's developmental needs.
• Failed to keep adequate records.
• Used what the ministry calls "improper behaviour management."

All that, says the document, poses "an immediate threat to the health, safety and welfare" of the children.

The ministry, along with inspectors from the Children's Aid Society, had received complaints from parents and staff at the centre, according to an employee who does not want to be named.

She told CBC News that, since April, Siddiqui has ordered only enough food for eight children, even though 14 or 15 are currently enrolled in the centre's preschool program.

She said a toilet just a couple metres from where the children eat has been blocked for two weeks.

She said Siddiqui refuses to let the children use special Montessori toys and supplies, even though the daycare is advertised as a Montessori centre.

She also said one family that is paying extra for one-on-one care for their disabled child isn't getting it.

Siddiqui did not answer phone calls or emails from CBC News, and no one answered the door at her Barrhaven home.

The ministry document orders her to stay away from Little Angels Academy until she has satisfied a long list of demands.