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Health and safety in a family child care network: An analysis of violation data of routine, full unannounced inspections

Description:
FDC providers may join child care provider networks to feel a part of a community, gain assistance with licensing requirements, and to learn best practices in topics including early literacy, preschool education, health, safety, and small business ownership (National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance 2017). FDC providers engaged with staffed networks have been shown to provide better quality child care (Bromer et al. 2008; Doherty et al. 2006; Kontos et al. 1995). Although a FDC provider's engagement in a child care network may be expected to lead to improved compliance with state regulations—only some of which measure the same outcomes as quality—we found no published data on this association. Accordingly, we hypothesized that FDC provider engagement with All Our Kin (AOK), a staffed child care network that trains, supports, and sustains child care providers, is associated with decreased number of health and safety violations in FDC homes (https://allourkin.org/). We also hypothesized that more hours of engagement and longer time engaged with the network is associated with decreased health and safety violations by category of violation and by individual violation and that this association would persist even after controlling for area economics and length of experience of the provider. In order to assess if and how membership in a staffed family child care network is associated with health and safety regulatory compliance, we merged state-level public data on health and safety violations in unannounced inspections with AOK network participation data. (author abstract)
Resource Type:
Reports & Papers
Country:
United States
State(s)/Territories/Tribal Nation(s):
Connecticut

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