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Child Care Quality and Consumer Education, Final Report: September 2000 - September 2004, Revised July 2005
By Barbara J Bristow, Youngok Lim, H. Elizabeth Peters, Patty Skinner
July
2005
Summary: This 2005 report describes a pilot project—Child Care Programs of Excellence (CCPOE)—that implements a quality rating system in four counties in New York (i.e., Onondaga, Albany, Ontario, and Yates). Information was collected about the quality of child care providers in center care and in licensed family child care using both structural and process measures. It was intended to communicate the child care quality ratings to parents. The impact of the project was evaluated on all segments of the child care market. The CCPOE rating system is attractive to a variety of providers as seen by the range of quality ratings received by participating child care programs. Eighty percent of providers who participated in CCPOE made changes to their program in anticipation of receiving higher star ratings that signal better quality of care to the public. Since this program offers no financial compensation for achievement of higher quality of care, public rating and recognition may be a significant incentive to foster improved quality of care. Most of the family child care providers seemed reluctant to use a high quality rating to justify increasing their prices, citing sympathy for family financial situations. Center directors were more business like in expressing their decision not to raise prices, evaluating the market in more objective terms, but still coming to the same conclusion.
Index Terms: Child Care Providers, Consumer Education, Quality Of Child Care, Quality Rating System, Studies, Research Reports
Publication Type: Reports (Research/technical)
Pages: 170 pages
Language: English
Availability
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