This report includes findings from a national survey of networks about the benchmarks and indicators for high-quality home-based child care networks. This study represents the first effort to understand how networks address the benchmarks and indicators. Findings reveal insights into networks’ organizational culture and values, the kinds of services that networks offer, and the ways networks implement these services.
Implementing Benchmarks for High- Quality HBCC Networks: Findings from a National Survey of HBCC Networks
What Does Recognition and Respect for Family Child Care Providers Really Mean?
Family child care providers value licensing systems because of how these systems provide accountability and incentivize quaity care, while recognizing them as child care professionals. What providers want is simple — inclusion and representation in the decision-making bodies that regulate their work. In this blog, FCC providers share why they value and respect licensing systems and how that respect can be reciprocated through better representation of providers in those systems. Read the blog post here.
