1999 census of child care services
A report of findings from the 1999 Australian Government census of all child care providers receiving government funding, which provided information on services offered, children served, and child care staff
Reports & Papers
3rd survey of parents of three and four year old children and their use of early years services: (Summer 1998 to spring 1999)
A brief description of findings of a survey of parents of three and four year old British children to determine the rates of participation in preschool programs from the summer of 1998, fall of 1998, and spring of 1999
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Adult attunement and child availability: Interaction of mother and caregiver with three-year-old Kibbutz children
An investigation of adult attentiveness and intrusiveness in dyadic relations between children and their mothers and caregivers, in a sample of 33 three-year-old Kibbutz children in Israel
Reports & Papers
All day provision for 3- and 4-year olds
A summary of a study examining the features of full-day child care provision in Scotland, including perceptions of quality, based on eight case studies of child care settings
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Alternate child care options: Preferences of the hill community
An exploration of the child care needs of women living in a rural upland hill area in India
Reports & Papers
Assessing the local need for family and child care services: A small area utilization analysis
A study to identify a set of needs indicators to guide resource allocation of family and child care services, by examining the relationship between the costs of services and socioeconomic characteristics in 498 small areas in Northern Ireland
Reports & Papers
Assessing quality in childminding
A discussion of child care quality assessments for child care centers in Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Other
Attracting and keeping qualified early childhood care centre staff
An overview of factors causing problems for the recruitment and retention of qualified child care workers in Nova Scotia
Other
The barriers to childcare provision: Executive summary
An assessment of the nature and extent of both the demand for and supply of different types of childcare provision in Great Britain for children under the age of 16
Executive Summary
Barriers to lone parents' employment: Looking beyond the obvious
A discussion of the role of neighborhood disadvantage and policies to increase access to child care and training in the transition to employment among single parents on welfare
Other
Beginning reading instruction: Towards levelling the playing field
A comparison of the reading-related test scores of 7 children before and after an 8 week shared reading intervention, based on data collected from 6 voluntary participant low income families living in a small city in New South Wales
Reports & Papers
A book reading intervention with preschool children who have limited vocabularies: The benefits of regular reading and dialogic reading
A study of the effects of storybook reading on the acquisition of vocabulary for preschool children who have poor vocabulary skills
Reports & Papers
Caretakers, child care practices, and growth failure in highland Ecuador
An examination of the relationship between sibling and peer child care and children’s physical health and development in the highlands of Ecuador
Reports & Papers
Changing theories, changing practice: Exploring early childhood teachers' professional learning
An examination of how nine early childhood teachers changed their teaching practices and theories after being involved in a study analyzing their theories of play and how the theories relate to the teachers' classroom practices
Reports & Papers
Changing women's lives: Child care policy in Ireland
A discussion of the growing role of women in the workforce, the changing social context of family life, and the on-going debate concerning state child care policies and funding in Ireland
Other
Child care and Canadian federalism in the 1990s: Canary in a coal mine
An examination of federal and provincial jurisdictional barriers that obstructed the formation of a national child care system for Canada and a discussion of the need for federal leadership involvement in the development of a national child care system
Reports & Papers
Child care arrangement and preschool development
An analysis of the relationship between child care arrangement and poor development attainment in Canadian children aged 2 to 3, using data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
Reports & Papers
Child care in cultural context: Issues for new research
An Australian study detailing the theoretical and empirical literature on home-child care congruity and inconsistency on child development
Other
Children's living conditions in Sweden: Social patterns and trends in parental accessibility, child care and economic research
An analysis of Swedish children’s living conditions in relation to parental employment, parental accessibility, use of child care, and economic resources
Reports & Papers
The child's start in day care centre
An observational study of ten children's experiences during their first few months in child care
Reports & Papers
Community-based early intervention: The Coimbra Project
An overview and assessment of the Coimbra Project, an early intervention, multi-service program designed to help support young, Portugese children with special needs and their families
Reports & Papers
Comparison between two common methods for reporting cold and diarrhoea symptoms for children in daycare centre research
A study comparing the rate that Canadian child care center staff reported toddlers' cold and diarrhea symptoms to the rate of parent reports
Reports & Papers
Consultancy on support to Childcare Partnerships
A study of the practices of local Childcare Partnerships in Scotland, based on interviews with partnership members and stakeholders
Reports & Papers
Creating sustainable nursing interventions: An innovative health promotion strategy for handwashing in child care centres
A description of an evidence-based, cost effective pilot program using community child health nursing interventions to promote handwashing among child care center staff
Reports & Papers
Can starting summer-born children earlier at infant school improve their National Curriculum results?
An investigation of the effect of the length of schooling for children who were born later than their peers as compared with the effect of their age on their National Curriculum scores
Reports & Papers
