Home child care businesses in Ohio with six or fewer children have come under scrutiny from a prominent child care advocacy group citing a lack of state regulation. The National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies ranked Ohio last in the nation along with eight other states based on scores in 14 categories related to the health, safety and well-being of children, including employee background checks, minimum education and training requirements and facility inspections.
Tips for Choosing Summer Child Care 3 Look at all care options from school and park programs to camps. Visit them. 3 Check references and the previous history of programs. 3 Count the adult- to-child ratio. 3 Ask your children what programs they'd like to be in. 3 Be informed. Contact your local child care resource and referral agency. -- Source: Child Care Aware, an initiative of the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies Finding the right child care is a different animal in the summer. Schoolchildren are not automatically occupied five days a week. Families also often have younger children who are in a regular day care or home child care setting. Some providers have programs for schoolchildren; some don't.
FUTURE EVENTS * MountainHeart Child Care Resource and Referral Services will conduct professional development sessions for family daycare providers, facility providers and daycare center staff on Friday at the Fayette County Department of Health and Human Resources, Oak Hill. "Disaster Preparedness How Prepared are YOU?" will be presented from 10 a.m. to noon and "Helping Children Make Good Food Choices" will be presented from 1 to 3 p.m. Pre-registration is required. Call Reba or Missy at 1-866-872-9204 or 304-872-9200.
Ohio has had some bad press in recent months for its failure to support early childhood care and education. Now comes the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, an advocacy group for quality child care. It ranks Ohio among the worst in the nation for ensuring quality in day-care operations with six or fewer children. Also, advocates of early education decried the elimination of funding in last fall's state budget go-round for a program that helped poor kids enroll in quality early care.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- Proposed cuts to a state program that subsidizes child care for working families drew opposition Thursday from Yakima providers, teachers and parents. More than 5,000 children in Yakima County benefited from the Working Connections program in 2008, the latest figures available from the nonprofit Child Care Resource and Referral Network.
Parents in California are shelling out a whopping $10,700 a year to pay for other people to care for a child while they are at work. A new study released by National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies ranks California among the 10 least- affordable states in terms of child care for both infants and preschoolers.
WASHINGTON, July 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Yesterday on the Dr. Phil show, America saw examples of how devastating bad quality child care can be for some children and their parents. Many of these child care tragedies occur because of weak child care regulations and a lack of funding to support even basic licensing, inspections, and training programs," says Linda Smith, executive director of the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.
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