Child Care: Promoting Quality in Family Child Care. Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology, Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives.

Institution	General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div.
Titel	Child Care: Promoting Quality in Family Child Care. Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology, Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives.
Quelle	(1994), (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Child Caregivers; Consumer Education; Databases; Early Childhood Education; Family Day Care; Federal Aid; Improvement Programs; Private Financial Support; Professional Training; Recruitment; Social Support Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Konsumerziehung; Datenbank; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Effizienzsteigerung; Private Investition; Berufliche Fachbildung; Berufliche Fortbildung; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung
Abstract	A recent study of family child care documented that a significant number of providers were giving inadequate care. As a result, this study sought to: (1) identify public and private initiatives to enhance the quality of family child care and determine how the initiatives are financed; (2) describe the federal role in supporting quality initiatives; and (3) discuss the implications of these findings for welfare reform. The scope and methodology of the study involved developing a database of family child care quality improvement initiatives, conducting site visits at 11 initiatives (in Georgia, Oregon, and California), interviewing experts and officials in several organizations, and reviewing literature and analyzing funding data for the database. Analysis of the initiatives visited showed three approaches used to foster quality care: (1) support networks; (2) training, recruitment, and consumer education initiatives; and (3) health initiatives. The purpose of consumer education campaigns is to help parents recognize quality child care, create a demand for it, and prompt the child care market to supply it. The Health initiatives are intended to increase the health and safety practices in family child care homes. The study concludes that family child care initiatives are financed with public and private funds. The federal government's role in child care has been primarily one of helping parents pay for child care. Research shows that quality child care is particularly important to poor children, and the initiatives identified by the study can provide information on ways to improve them. An additional highlight of this study is the construction of the largest single database of family child care quality improvement initiatives. (Examples of initiatives and a list of the major contributors to the report are appended.) (BAC)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC