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Regulations that Govern the Child Care Industry
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Child Care Services

• These days, to have two earning members per
  family has become the norm rather than the
  exception.
• This has caused the increased utilization of
  child care arrangements for preschool children,
  to help working parents.
• Consequently, there is an onus on the education
  department to frame policies that will ensure the
  quality and safety of these child care services
  and vet licensed child care providers.

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• Often, parents are unable to evaluate or monitor
  the quality of the child care providers in their
  locality, so they avoid sending them to day care.
  This compromises the childs early learning.
• The government has brought about regulations for
  nonparental child care services to monitor and
  improve the quality of care in care spaces to
  address this need.
• In the U.S., such regulations are almost
  exclusively the responsibility of the states.
• States impose standards that child care services
  have to follow to improve the level of quality.
• Some standards include, limiting the number of
  children per staff in a facility or classroom,
  hiring staff that meet training requirements and
  requiring facilities and staff to meet certain
  safety standards.
• Early childhood educators and providers have an
  ethical obligation to uphold these high
  standards.

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• Regulations to Monitor Child
  Care in San Jose
• The California Department of Education and the
  California Department of Social Services vet
  child care providers in areas administered by the
  California Department of Education.
• The California Code of Regulations are program
  requirements formally adopted by state agencies
  to define the program operations requirements for
  child care providers.
• The California Department of Education ensures
  that all daycare centers, preschools and child
  care providers that operate under its
  jurisdiction are fully licensed and are up to
  code.
• Regular checks are done to ensure that these
  child care spaces are adhering to regulations and
  protocol.
• When parents are searching for a child care space
  for their little one, it is important that they
  make sure that the child care provider they are
  considering has been vetted by the government
  before enrolling their child.