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2006 childcare and early years providers surveys
Nicholson, Susan, August 2007
(Research Report No. DCSF-RB009). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Children, Schools and Families.

A summary of a comparison of characteristics--including characteristics of children served, provider income, and staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training--of child care and early education provider organizations in eight sectors--family child care providers, out-of-school time providers, full-day care providers, part-day providers, Sure Start children's centers, preschools, primary schools with transition classes for four- and five-year-old children but not preschool classes, and primary schools with both preschool and transition classes--in the United Kingdom

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2006 childcare and early years providers surveys: Full day care providers
Kinnaird, Robert, 2007
(Research Report No. DCSF-RW011). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Children, Schools and Families.

A study of characteristics of organizations providing full-day child care services in the United Kingdom, including organizations' administrative and business practices, characteristics of children served, and staff size, wages, recruitment and retention, qualifications, and training, based on surveys of managers of provider organizations

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2006 childcare and early years providers surveys: Overview report
Kinnaird, Robert, 2007
(Research Report No. DCSF-RR009). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Children, Schools and Families.

A comparison of characteristics--including characteristics of children served, provider income, and staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training--of child care and early education provider organizations in eight sectors--family child care providers, out-of-school time providers, full-day care providers, part-day providers, Sure Start children's centers, preschools, primary schools with transition classes for four- and five-year-old children but not preschool classes, and primary schools with both preschool and transition classes--in the United Kingdom

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2006 childcare and early years providers surveys: Sessional providers
Nicholson, Susan, 2007
(Research Report No. DCSF-RW016). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Children, Schools and Families.

A study of characteristics of organizations providing part-time child care in the United Kingdom, including organizations' administrative and business practices, characteristics of children served, and staff size, wages, recruitment and retention, qualifications, and training, based on surveys of managers of provider organizations

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Air Force/NACCRRA Quality Family Child Care (QFCC) project: Final report
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, January, 2007
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

An evaluation of a joint Air Force-National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies initiative to increase the supply of high-quality family child care in civilian communities near Air Force bases by implementing the Air Force model of family child care among local providers

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Air Force/NACCRRA Quality Family Child Care (QFCC) project: Final report [Executive summary]
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, January, 2007
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

A summary of an evaluation of a joint Air Force-National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies initiative to increase the supply of high-quality family child care in civilian communities near Air Force bases by implementing the Air Force model of family child care among local providers

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Assessing initiatives for family, friend, and neighbor child care: An overview of models and evaluations
Porter, Toni, March 2007
(Research-to-Policy Connections No. 5). New York: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections

A description of current efforts to support and enhance home-based, regulation-exempt child care provided by family, friends, and/or neighbors, and of the documentation and evaluation of these efforts

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Beyond child care centers: The essential role of home-based child care in Connecticut's early care and education system
Oliveira, Peg, June, 2007
(Rev. ed.). New Haven: Connecticut Voices for Children.

An overview of the role of family child care homes in the early care and education system in Connecticut, focusing on issues of regulation, cost, supply, and quality

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Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2002 (CCDF) [United States]
United States. Department of Health and Human Services, 2007
United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Child Care Bureau. CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT FUND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA, FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR 2002 [Computer file]. ICPSR04597-v1. Rockville, MD: Anteon Corporation, Child Care Automation Resource Center [producer], 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-03-09.

This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.

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Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2003 (CCDF) [United States]
United States. Department of Health and Human Services, 2007
United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Child Care Bureau. CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT FUND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA, FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR 2003 [Computer file]. ICPSR04643-v1. Rockville, MD: Anteon Corporation, Child Care Automation Resource Center [producer], 2007. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-03-09.

This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.

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Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2004 (CCDF) [United States]
United States. Department of Health and Human Services, 2007
United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Child Care Bureau. CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT FUND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA, FEDERAL FISCAL YEAR 2004 [Computer file]. ICPSR04529-v1. Rockville, MD: Anteon Corporation, Child Care Automation Resource Center [producer], 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-03-09.

This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.

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Child care and early education programs
Illinois Action for Children, 2007
Chicago: Illinois Action for Children.

An overview of the number of child care providers and slots, by provider characteristics, in Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois

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Child care in the homes of family, friends or neighbors
Illinois Action for Children, 2007
Chicago: Illinois Action for Children.

An overview of family, friend, and neighbor child care provision in Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois

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Childcare market management: How the United Kingdom government has reshaped its role in developing early education and care
Penn, Helen, September 2007
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 8(3), 192-207

A review of early education and care policies in the United Kingdom since 1997 when a Labour government came into power and set the policies into international context by supporing the development of the private sector

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Children, caregiving, culture, and community: Understanding the place and importance of kith and kin care in the White Mountain Apache community
Sparks, Shannon Michelle Anjeanette, 2007
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson

An ethnographic study of the values and circumstances influencing the child care decisions of members of the White Mountain Apache community, with particular attention to both cultural differences in perceptions of quality care and the trends related to the use of family, friend, and neighbor care, based on interviews, observations, and discussions with several dozen parents and care providers

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Close to home: State strategies to strengthen and support family, friend, and neighbor care
Blank, Helen, February, 2007
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.

An overview of policy options for states to support family, friend, and neighbor child care and early education

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The condition of education 2007
Planty, Michael, June 2007
(NCES 2007-064). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

An annual statistical report on the status and progress of education in the United States, including early childhood education program enrollment and after school activities

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Demographic and family differences in the use of early childhood care and education in Pennsylvania: A 2002 baseline
Weinraub, Marsha, March, 2007
Commonwealth, 13, 103-132

A baseline study of family, demographic, and child age characteristics associated with selection of several types of child care and early education, based on data collected from a random sample of 1,005 Pennsylvania families with young children in 2002

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Difficult children and difficult parents: Constructions by child care providers
Owens, Erica, June 2007
Journal of Family Issues, 28(6), 827-850

A survey-based examination of family home child care providers and their strategies of dealing with children with behavioral issues, including biting, physical aggression, unruliness, destruction, and loud children/screamers

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Early childhood education and care in Canada 2006
Friendly, Martha, June 2007
(7th ed.). Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto, Childcare Resource and Research Unit.

An overview of trends in early childhood education and care in the Canadian provinces and territories between 2005 and 2006

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Early years: Getting on well: Enjoying, achieving and contributing
Great Britain. Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (England), 2007
London: Great Britain, Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services, and Skills.

A description of the child care quality inspection process, and aan account of the changes in child care quality of early education settings, based on inspection data on 27,200 child care settings across England conducted between April 2006 - March 2007

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An economic perspective on the current and future role of nonprofit provision of early learning and child care services in Canada: Final project report
Cleveland, Gordon, 01 March, 2007
Unpublished manuscript.

An analysis comparing the quality of non-profit and for-profit child care centers in Canada based on a literature review, analysis of a national data set and three smaller data sets from Quebec and Toronto, and interviews with key informants

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Employees' views on quality
Rush, Emma, 2007
In E. Hill, B. Pocock, & A. Elliott (Eds.), Kids count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia (pp. 154-178). Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Sydney University Press.

An analysis by center for-profit status (non-profit community-based providers, small, independent for-profit providers, and for-profit corporate providers) of the quality of care provided in Australian child care centers, based on a national survey of the beliefs of staff working at full-day child care centers

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Exploring cultural differences in children’s exposure to television in home-based child care settings
Shivers, Eva Marie, May 2007
Zero to Three, 27(5), 39-45

A comparison of patterns of television use in the family child care sites run by 50 African American and 50 Latino child care providers serving children under age 5 in low-income areas of Los Angeles County

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Family child care (FCC) research: Table of methods and findings
Morrissey, Taryn, 2007
New York: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections

A table summarizing the research questions, groups studied, methods, validity and reliability issues, and findings of studies discussed in an accompanying literature review examining regulated family child care in the United States, including survey, observation, demonstration, and evaluation research

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