Childcare Home Memo

I am a qualified Childcare Practitioner with 12 years’ experience, who would love the opportunity to embark on a career as a Primary Teacher. I am currently employed in a local authority pre-five nursery class within a Primary School. I aspire to become a teacher as I feel it will offer me new challenges and a chance to further develop my love of teaching. I am a dedicated worker and continually strive to provide high standards. I also promote confidence, respect and compassion to ensure all members of the nursery and school are respected.

This Act which is born from parent’s needs has a specific impact on childcarer's practice, but not only, as course handout 1a (2012, p2) confirms This Act is ‘for all those who are responsible for planning, running and using early childhood services’.

An increase in baby booming makes it tougher for working parents to find daycare. The facts prove that having children come with a true price. Even so it doesn’t change the issues of finding child care or makes them go away. When parents work, quality child care is a necessity. And it does not come cheap. For families with more than one child, child care can eat up one salary, leaving parents wondering both working is worth it. When thinking of child care there are some options to consider like choosing a child care center, the costs of child care centers, and waiting lists.

Families have many choices for childcare, ranging from in-home care, a childcare facility, an after school program or a

The purpose of this research is to explore the benefits of onsite childcare for big corporations. More specifically answering the questions of “What is cost effective for business owners to provide onsite childcare?” and “Will providing childcare for working parents alleviate their stress; and increase productivity on their job?” The review of this literature will discuss the stress of childcare on working parents; the advantages and disadvantages of onsite childcare; the benefits of corporations providing onsite child care. The research methods that would be conducive to complete this research would be surveys and separate focus groups between employees and their employers. The literature review will explain each topic in detail

On-Site daycares would also be more time efficient for employees as they and their children will be going to one destination, opposed to travelling a further distance to drop of their kids before arriving at work. Dually this also compliments time effectiveness because employees can work later hours without the inconvenience of having to leave early to retrieve their child from a further daycare facility. In cases such as illness for the child, it also saves time for the company and the worker for the employee to be able to take their child from work to a hospital or other destination without the extra travelling.

New parents would require a well paying job, as a well paying job requires a good education. Providing a daycare could lead to a higher class job to support an already-formed family. But, to every positive leads a negative. Frequent budget cuts would have to be met to maintain a healthy and financially stable daycare for children and staff (Source B). The main obstacle of proving a daycare is for the community paying for it. Taxpayers do not want to pay for “sexually active, immature kids” and would rather not pay for them and their “mistakes” (Source C).

. The daycare and child development business is booming and profits are soaring. With more people looking at the child care field from different angles, these type of programs have more opportunities for more allies and partners, for funding and positive public relations, for improving, and “professionalizing” the programs that we offer to our children in our communities. Non-profit groups and higher education have increasingly partnered with schools, often including after-school hours.

Working parents face a dilemma each summer—who's going to care for the children? Why pay for a daycare or a babysitter when you could instead choose a program that includes Math and ELA, science classes, and more from a licensed teaching staff. We also have after school programs to fill in the care gap through the end of your work day.

Approximately 60 percent of U.S. children aged five and younger have spent time in a child care setting (Wohlgenant, et al). This number is increasing and the need for child care continues to be more and more demanding. The big question is whether daycare centers, home care faculties, or the stay-at-home mom the best choice for children? Overall daycare centers are more beneficial to children 's social, emotional, and educational development because of the center ' tighter guidelines. About 57 percent of children are in some type of child care based in a daycare center, while 23 percent were cared for at home by a relative of some sort, and 12 percent are in home care facilities (Davidson 671). Over half of children are in a daycare center, meaning that is the right choice for children when we can provide the right staff, education, social and emotional atmosphere.

Last week we met as a team to create a transition plan for two children to return to their father’s care due to the father obtaining and maintaining housing, employment, and sobriety over the past ten months. The children were present at part of the meeting and contributed their thoughts about returning home with their father. The children then expressed being excited to be able to move home with their father. The transition was set up to have the children in their father’s care on October 14th so that the children would start their new school following fall break. I met with the father this week on Wednesday and found out that the father had quit his job on Tuesday. As we talked the father stated that his supervisor was being disrespectful Monday morning and continued to be disrespectful throughout the day and the father was unable to tolerate the disrespect any longer so he did not return to work on Tuesday resulting in a no call no show. I provided the client with several employment leads to local businesses and encouraged him to apply quickly. I notified the FCM

Employers elect to build and run their own child care facility at the workplace. This options is the most convenient and attractive for employees. In one study, at two separate facilities, the child care centers reported long waiting list, even if the cost was higher or the same as the local economy. Furthermore, employees who could have used a family provided care, at substantial less cost, chose to utilize the on-site care (Connelly, Degraff, & Willis, 2002). This option has all of the benefits of the FSAs and a few added benefits. However, this option comes with some inherent

Matthew Geiger quoted, “When employees feel valued and appreciated, they work to live up to standards more often than not. Offering childcare shows women, and men, they are valuable enough to deserve the convenience of having an onsite babysitter.” Sometimes little things may change someone’s views on something or someone. Many parents would feel appreciated if their employer offered childcare at their workplace. A lot of parents go

One type of child care program described in Chapter 7 of the Morrison text that could interest me is that of Family child care. Simply put, there is a smaller ratio of children to adults, “provides a comfortable homelike environment” ( Morrison, 2015, p.210) offering a mix of children ages and “flexible days and hours depending on parents’ needs” (Morrison, 2015, p.210) in which case I could accommodate my work hours to a parent’s work hours.

I will tell the grandmother that the person that called you is school staff not program staff, she is an assistant teacher and that she did in fact pull your name and number from the child’s SCHOOL file however the files are completely different, and on our program file you are not listed for authorization to pick up the child. As stated in our program policy if you are not listed I cannot allow you to remove the child from my site. I will call the mother and ask her if you are authorized to pick up the child however if she doesn’t answer I cannot allow you to pick up the child until she calls back. If she doesn’t call back by 6:30pm I will have to call the police and report this as child