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Background Checks Promote Children’s Safety in Child Care
Background checks for child care providers are essential to ensure that individuals who have a history of violent offenses are not licensed to provide child care or hired to work in a child care...
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Are Children in Child Care Safe During Disasters?
Too many states fail to ensure the safety of children in child care during disasters During normal working hours – which total more than 2,000 hours a year – the safety of nearly 68 million children is...
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Child Care Training Matters!
Playground accidents happen, just ask any parent. A scraped elbow, a scraped knee, but on September 9, 19-month-old Faith Phillips died from injuries she sustained just a few days before at a...
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Child Care Training Can Save Lives!
This week, Norfolk Circuit Court Judge Charles Poston dismissed a felony charge of child cruelty against a child care director who ran a program where 7-week-old Dylan Cummings died in May of 2010....
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Parents Want Affordable, Quality Child Care!
Child Care Aware® of America is partnering with Parents Magazine to urge Congress to focus on the child care crisis. Click here to see the article in the December issue of Parents. The federal law that...
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Progress Toward Quality Child Care
The Year in Review Child Care Aware®of America’s quality child care campaign kicks off another year today on the journey for affordable, safe, quality child care for all children. How are we doing?...
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Safe Child Care: Violence Prevention
Nearly 11 million children under age 5 are in some type of child care setting every week – on average for 35 hours. The recent tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, is a reminder that we need to review our...
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Affordable, Quality Child Care Campaign
Child Care Aware® of America’s Affordable, Quality Child Care Campaign We’re building a nationwide movement, a campaign to expand access to affordable, quality child care. Every week, nearly 11...
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Are Children Safe? It’s time to ask. It’s time to act.
Last week, for the fifth year, Rep. Jill Schupp (D-Creve Coeur) in Missouri introduced a bill to save children’s lives. The bill is called “Nathan’s Law,” after a 3-month-old infant in Missouri who...
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Virginia Needs an Overhaul of State Child Care Laws
A front page Washington Post story on Sunday, March 10, “After a baby’s death, a Virginia mother fights for stronger child care standards,” shared the tragic story of 3-month-old Camden Lafkin’s death...
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Virginia County Looks to Weaken Child Care!
Last week a front page story in the Washington Post shared the tragic death of 3-month-old Camden Lafkin in a Virginia child care program. The child care provider and Camden’s cause of death are under...
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A Child Care License Should Mean Children are Safe
This week, the New Republic ran an article, “The Hell of American Day Care: An Investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children.” The article reviewed the...
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It’s Time to Fix Child Care – Reauthorization Bill Introduced in Senate
Last week, Senator Mikulski (D-MD), Senator Burr (R-NC), Senator Harkin (D-IA), and Senator Alexander (R-TN) introduced a bill to reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant, the primary...
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