Ensured Families
received quality child care services through development and implementation of appropriate policies, procedures and guidelines.
Not exact matches
Quality of
care is best when
children receive coordinated
care and
services.
Alison Stanley, HR director, civil
service employee policy; David Stephens, director of resources (Army), HM Armed Forces, Ministry of Defence; Andrea Sutcliffe, chief inspector of adult social care, Care Quality Commission; Deborah Walsh, deputy head of counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service; and Nick Whitfield, chief executive, Achieving for Children, all also receiv
service employee policy; David Stephens, director of resources (Army), HM Armed Forces, Ministry of Defence; Andrea Sutcliffe, chief inspector of adult social
care, Care Quality Commission; Deborah Walsh, deputy head of counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service; and Nick Whitfield, chief executive, Achieving for Children, all also receive C
care,
Care Quality Commission; Deborah Walsh, deputy head of counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service; and Nick Whitfield, chief executive, Achieving for Children, all also receive C
Care Quality Commission; Deborah Walsh, deputy head of counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution
Service; and Nick Whitfield, chief executive, Achieving for Children, all also receiv
Service; and Nick Whitfield, chief executive, Achieving for
Children, all also
receive CBEs.
By participating in the trainings, participants will learn helpful strategies to coordinate
care, streamline the referral process, improve communication, save time, and provide higher
quality care and EI
services; parents will be more satisfied with the
care they
receive through their primary
care medical homes; and
children will
receive more timely and coordinated
services that will improve health and developmental outcomes.
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).
The HS findings are consistent with the magnitude and direction of those observed at 30 to 33 months, when robust effects were observed for
quality of health
care services received and parenting practices related to discipline and perceptions of behavior.5 The persistence of these findings is related to experiences seeking health
care in an intervention that offered the greatest intensity of
services in the first 18 months, with completion of home visits particularly concentrated in the
child's first year.
Specific limitations have been noted in the
quality of
care related to developmental and behavioral
services for
children in the first 3 years of life,4 - 7 particularly regarding gaps between recommended and actual
care received.8, 9 In a national survey, only 23 % of 2017 parents of young
children discussed discipline and early learning with their
child's clinician, and over half wanted more information about these topics.4 In a survey of 1900 Medicaid - enrolled
children ages 4 years and younger, 40 % of parents reported that their
child's clinicians did not ask whether they had concerns about their
child's development and well - being.10 Using the National Survey of Early Childhood Health, Halfon et al6 reported that 34 % of parents of 2068
children ages 4 to 35 months did not believe their
child's clinicians always took time to understand their
child's needs.
Gov. Inslee's plan also includes significant funding around increasing access to preschool programs for
children from low - income families; funding for programs for
children with special needs and to increase the number of families
receiving home visiting
services; and continued funding for programs designed to improve
quality in
child care.
More vulnerable
children are participating in high -
quality child care - between 2009 and 2016, the percentage of
children under the age of six who
receive child care subsidy or foster
care services and were enrolled in centers with ratings of 3 stars or above increased from 20 % to 46 %
Head Start and EHS contractors that participate in the initiative provide
services through community
child care providers to both increase the number of
children receiving EHS
services and improve the overall
quality of
care.
For example, new longitudinal research found that
children who
received high
quality early
care and education
services are significantly more likely to be employed full - time and have more financial and personal assets by their early forties.
She is passionate about the
quality of
services children receive under her
care.