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Addressing the Decreasing Number of Family Child Care Providers in the United States examines the reasons family child care homes close and offers information that your state, territory, or tribe can use to solve this problem.
National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance (ECQA Center) supports state and community leaders and their partners in the planning and implementation of rigorous approaches to quality in all early care and education settings for children from birth to school age. The Center's expert staff use collaborative approaches to do the following:
- Advance strong health and safety standards and licensing regulations that align with the Child Care and Development Fund and Head Start Performance Standards.
- Support the development and enhancement of state quality initiatives, including quality rating and improvement systems.
- Enhance quality assurance systems through the use of technology, data analysis, and research that promote continuous quality improvement, efficiency, and innovation.
Contact Us
Send your questions and requests to:
- QualityAssuranceCenter@ecetta.info
- 877-296-2250 (toll free)
Highlighted Tools and Resources:
The National Database of Child Care Licensing Regulations is a tool for finding and searching state child care licensing regulations and licensing agency contact information. It also includes links to other state and national early childhood program standards.
The Program Standards Crosswalk is a tool designed to help States that are developing and aligning program standards for licensing, quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS), and/or prekindergarten programs, to search and compare the content of several sets of national standards.
The QRIS Resource Guide provides guidance for States as they explore key issues and consider decision points during the planning and implementation of a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS).
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This brief, one in a series of eleven CCDF Health and Safety Requirements briefs, provides an overview of the prevention and control of infectious diseases in early childhood and school-age care environments.
Action is needed to ensure that family child care remains a strong, healthy component of the early childhood education system. This brief examines the reasons family child care homes close and offers information...
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance, in partnership with the National Association for Regulatory Administration, has conducted a large-scale research study of child care licensing provider and facility requirements and licensing agency policies every three years since 2005....
This brief describes licensing requirements and policies for group child care homes in 2017 and identifies trends from previous years of data collection. The data in this brief was collected from state child care licensing regulations by the National Center on Early Childhood...
This brief describes licensing requirements and policies for family child care homes in 2017 and identifies trends from previous years of data collection. The data in this brief was collected from state child care licensing regulations by the National Center on Early...
This brief describes licensing requirements and policies for child care centers in 2017 and identifies trends from previous years of data collection. The data in this brief was collected from state child care licensing regulations by the National...
The 2014 Child Care Licensing Study looked at licensing requirements for child care centers, family child care homes, and group child care homes and licensing agency policies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and two U.S. territories for 2014. These research briefs describe...
The 2011 Child Care Licensing Study looked at licensing requirements for child care centers, family child care homes, and group child care homes and licensing agency policies in all 50 states, and the District of Columbia. These research briefs describe changes in licensing requirements and...
This document provides the websites for states’ QRIS standards for 44 states (including the District of Columbia). The three local areas that are implementing a QRIS model are also included. QRIS quality standards assign ratings to programs that take part in QRIS. This provides parents and the...
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance presents a new training-of-trainers curriculum series, Strengthening Business Practices for Child Care...
