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New White Paper Release!
NARA, in collaboration with Dr. Richard Fiene, has developed a groundbreaking Child Care & Early Education (CCEE) Program Quality Tool based on the key indicator methodology.
Built from more than two decades of empirical data, this tool strengthens the connection between licensing and quality and supports differential monitoring by incorporating:
Key compliance indicators
Risk assessment
Regulatory compliance scales
Validation
Key quality indicators
The tool was tested and validated in Saskatchewan in 2023 and demonstrates how quality indicators can fit into a broader monitoring plan across child care, child welfare, and adult care systems.
2023 CHILD CARE LICENSING STUDY State childcarelicensing regulations, monitoring and enforcement policies help provide a baseline of protection for the health and safety of children in out-of-home care. Effective, robust licensing prevents harm to children. It mitigates the risk of injury or death from fire, building hazards, disease, and inadequate staff oversight, and helps to prevent the developmental delays that can result from the lack of healthy relationships with adults or developmentally inappropriate activities.
Licensing is a process that establishes the minimum requirements necessary to protect the health and safety of children in out-of-home-care; it is illegal for facilities that do not meet or exceed these minimum standards to operate. States manage the licensing process through the application and enforcement of regulations. The Child CareLicensing Study provides information collected about childcarelicensing programs and policies and the regulations for childcare centers, small family childcare (FCC) homes, and large/group FCC homes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The full 2023 report and survey instrument can be accessed on the NARA website on the Child CareLicensing Study page
