Sentences with phrase «quality child care remains»

While the specific tasks of a nanny may vary based on the children's age and individual needs, the overall responsibility of providing attentive and high - quality child care remains the same.

Not exact matches

Making quality child care accessible to middle and low - income parents will allow them to remain in the workforce while providing their young children a positive, safe and thriving foundation — something all Americans deserve.

If you aren't sure that the quality of her care is very good, or that you've embarked on a workable lifestyle, your child will likely remain unsure as well — and perhaps she should.

Parents exercise control over and participate in the education of their children, children receive optimal and equitable care, high - quality private providers remain in business, and states optimize their pre-K expenditures.

Although the law was amended after 2002 to exempt spouses, dependent children and a few others from the excessive demand assessment in recognition of its discriminatory and unfair quality, it remains a barrier to other foreign nationals and their children — those like Parkdale's client, a nanny who had worked long hours, days and years caring for Canadians and now was denied landing in Canada because her son was disabled.

High - quality early childhood care and education programs equitably serving children of all backgrounds who live in poverty remain an enormous, immediate need in our country.

Electrocardiogram, impedance cardiograph, and neuroendocrine data were collected during laboratory - based challenge tasks from children (mean age = 12.9 y) raised in deprived institutional settings in Romania randomized to a high - quality foster care intervention (n = 48) or to remain in care as usual (n = 43) and a sample of typically developing Romanian children (n = 47).

The research shows that foster care can lead to benefits across a range of domains including antisocial behaviour, 21 sexual activity, 22 school attendance and academic achievement, 23 social behaviour and quality of life24 compared with children who remain at home or who reunify following foster care, and that enhanced foster care can produce even better outcomes in terms of fewer mental and physical health problems.25

The literature on these placements suggests that although kinship families are much more vulnerable than unrelated foster families, children living with relatives are more likely to remain in the same placement and to have longer durations in foster care.78 Given the large numbers of kinship placements occurring across the United States, it would behoove the child welfare system to provide supportive services to these vulnerable kinship families to enable them to provide quality care to the children in their care (see the article by Geen in this journal issue).

Main Outcome Measures Quality of care was operationalized across 4 domains: effectiveness (eg, families received ≥ 4 Healthy Steps — related services or discussed > 6 anticipatory guidance topics), patient - centeredness (eg, families were satisfied with care provided), timeliness (eg, children received timely well - child visits and vaccinations), and efficiency (eg, families remained at the practice for ≥ 20 months).

Despite evidence of the positive impact of high - quality early childhood education for all children, it remains out of reach for most low - and moderate - income families.15 The average price of center - based care in the United States accounts for nearly 30 percent of the median family income, and only 10 percent of child care programs are considered high quality.16 Publicly funded programs — such as Head Start, Early Head Start, child care, and state pre-K programs — are primarily targeted at low - income families, but limited funding for these programs severely hinders access.17 This lack of access to high - quality early childhood education perpetuates the achievement gap, evidenced by the fact that only 48 percent of low - income children are ready for kindergarten, compared with 75 percent of moderate - or high - income children.18

Access to child care, particularly high quality child care, remains out of reach for many families.

High - quality early childhood programs — including both child care and preschool programs — are critical for workers with young children who hope to remain in the workforce.