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Top 12 Trends in Childcare
1. Child Care Is Catering to Budget-Minded Families
2. Child Care is Now Early Education
3. Drop-In Child Care is More Common
4. Corporate Child Care is Raising Quality Bar
5. Technology is Changing Provider/Parent Connection
6. Most Child Care is Becoming Safer
7. More Child Care Options Exist
Source: http://childcare.about.com/od/evaluations/tp/trends.htm
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The Impact of the Recession on Child Care: A Survey of Local Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies To get a better idea of the impact on child care in communities across the United States, NACCRRA surveyed local Child Care Resource & Referral agencies (CCR&Rs). These agencies help parents find child care, and recruit and train child care providers. A two-page survey was designed to obtain both quantitative and qualitative responses from local CCR&Rs on the impact of the economic recession in their communities. Responses were obtained from about one-third of all local agencies – respondents represented 40 states. …Almost three-quarters of CCR&Rs (74 percent) said that the number of families unable to make child care payments or those falling behind in these payments has increased between June and December 2008. About one-third of CCR&Rs (34 percent) indicated that number of centers in their communities had declined between the last half of 2007 and the last half of 2008 and 37 percent indicated that the number of spaces in centers had declined during this time period…
Source: http://www.naccrra.org/policy/economic-stimulus-briefing-room/docs/EconImpact_One_Pager.pdf
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2009 Child Care in the State of California
http://www.naccrra.org/randd/data/docs/CA.pdf
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ECE in the Federal Budget
Eric J. Karolak, Ph.D, Executive Director of Exchange's Strategic Partner, Early Care and Education Consortium, shared this information of the status of early childhood funding in the federal budget: …Fiscal Year 2009 began on October 1, 2008. At the end of 2008, Congress adjourned without completing all of the federal appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2009 — the legislation that funds programs of all kinds, including child care and Head Start, but also transportation, water, schools, and hospitals. Instead, Congress passed a Continuing Resolution that extended federally-funded programs until the appropriations legislation could be completed. On February 25, the House of Representatives passed the $410 billion omnibus package. The Senate passed the package unchanged on March 10. President Obama signed the bill into law the next day. The FY09 budget includes a $65 million increase for the Child Care and Development Block Grant, a $235 million increase for Head Start, as well as increases to other important early childhood initiatives.
Source: http://www.childcareexchange.com/eed/issue.php?id=2219
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