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This presentation at the 2016 National Association for Family Child Care’s Family Child Care Institute included a dialogue about the various types of state, national, and federal standards that providers are required to meet. Presenters from the National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance…
Resource Type: National Meeting Resources Presentations
Topic/Subtopic:
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Health and Safety Requirements and Standards
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
This research brief is a joint effort between the National Center on Child Care Quality Improvement (NCCCQI), a previous contract of the Office of Child Care, and the National Association for Regulatory Administration (NARA). This is the second in a series of briefs from this collaboration to…
Resource Type: Resource Guide
Topic/Subtopic:
- Professional Development
- Core Knowledge and Competencies (CKC)
- Professional Development Systems
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
This report focuses on activities, authority, and staffing as parts of a quality assurance system designed to ensure that child care licensing rules are applied consistently and fairly across a State. Topics include the qualifications and professional development of licensing staff and States’…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic:
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Licensing Administration
- Caseloads/Staffing Patterns/Quality Assurance for Monitoring
- Qualifications and Training of Monitoring Staff
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014 and the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Program final rule (2016) require states and territories to have health and safety requirements in several topic areas for all providers that receive payments from the CCDF subsidy program…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic:
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Health and Safety Requirements and Standards
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
This peer-learning breakout allowed participants to discuss issues pertaining to licensing.
Resource Type: National Meeting Resources Presentations
Topic/Subtopic:
- Program Integrity and Accountability
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
This issue brief aims to assist CCDF Administrators and their partners in their work to support license-exempt family child care (FCC) homes. In addressing the unique needs of exempt FCC homes, States and Territories can better support the children in their care and their families. This brief is…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic:
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Health and Safety Requirements and Standards
- Monitoring and Enforcement
- Quality Improvement
- Provider Supports for Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
As States and Territories work to implement new Child Care and Development Fund requirements, many are considering how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their licensing monitoring systems. This National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assistance Peer Learning Group (PLG) focused on…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic:
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Monitoring and Enforcement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
In a series of reports about contemporary issues in licensing, this report focuses on States’ inspection policies and practices – guidelines and rules on monitoring providers’ compliance with the law and the regulations. Strong licensing regulations, without a commitment to routine inspections, do…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic:
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Licensing Administration
- Monitoring and Enforcement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
Enforcement, that part of the licensing process dedicated to ensuring compliance with the law and the regulations, is critical for the delivery of quality, safe child care services. In a series of reports about contemporary issues in licensing, this report focuses on effective practices for…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic:
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Licensing Administration
- Monitoring and Enforcement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
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Article – Safe Environments
Licensing regulations in States and Territories provide health and safety standards that help promote children’s health and ensure safe environments for infants and toddler in child care centers and family child care (FCC) homes…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Professional Development
- Core Knowledge and Competencies (CKC)
- Professional Development Systems
- Promoting Children's Development
Group: Not Applicable