City loosens childcare regulations
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View ArticlePrivate childcare operators struggling with reforms, mounds of paperwork
EXCERPTS:Private childcare operators say they are struggling to remain viable as they deal with red tape and extra costs linked to reforms.Childcare SA president Kerry Mahony said the association,...
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View ArticleLeaving children to chance: 2012 update ranking of state standards and...
Description:Child Care Aware® of America assessed state policies for small family child care homes, where up to six children are cared for in the home of the provider for compensation.
View ArticleExamining the human resource implications of emerging issues in early...
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View ArticleSubsidized child care: For the poor, by the poor
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View ArticleChildminders in the Netherlands
Description:This briefing provides an overview of the impact of changes to childminder regulation and funding introduced by the Dutch Government following the 2005 Dutch Childcare Act. It is based on...
View ArticleRI home-based childcare workers vote overwhelmingly to unionize
EXCERPTS:Home-based child-care providers in Rhode Island have voted overwhelmingly to unionize, giving them the ability to negotiate with the state over reimbursement rates and benefits.After four days...
View ArticleShift away from family day care
EXCERPTS:In Espoo, just west of Helsinki, many parents have shifted their children from home day care into day-care centres in recent years."If we compare this year with 2008, we have only 60 percent...
View ArticleState, union agree to contract for 4,000 home-based child care providers
EXCERPTS:Home-based child care providers caring for the state's poorest children would receive a 10 percent rate incrase over the next three years under the terms of a first-ever contract negotiated...
View ArticleBill 143, Child Care Modernization Act, 2013
A Bill to enact the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2013, to repeal the Day Nurseries Act, to amend the Early Childhood Educators Act, 2007 and the Education Act and to make consequential amendments...
View ArticleProposed changes to child care regulations - Ontario 2014
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View ArticleChildcare providers poised to bargain with Vermont over subsidies
EXCERPTS:Home childcare providers who take state subsidies can now form a union, under a law signed into law by Gov. Peter Shumlin on Thursday.About 1,400 childcare providers now have the option to...
View ArticleOutaouais home daycare strike to affect 3K children today
EXCERPTS:A rotating strike of Quebec home daycare workers is hitting the Outaouais today.The union representing daycare workers said 500 home-based daycare workers in the Outaouais are on strike,...
View ArticleProgram designed to produce licensed child-care providers
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