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The “Childcare Cliff” and and State funding for childcare centers is not just about paying people a living wage. Or making sure our children have high — quality childcare — as if that isn’t important enough. It’s also about preventing the trauma of having people lose jobs because they cannot go to work if they don’t have childcare. It’s about children being protected by being in safe, stable, nurturing environments. It’s about people who have dedicated their lives and careers to caring for our children being treated with dignity and respect and the ability to earn a decent living. And business will soon find out it’s about keep the NC economy thriving because businesses don’t want to be where people are unable to focus on work because childcare is unstable, unreliable, or unsafe. This is fundamental. Legislators who don’t support this funding need to be turned out. Seriously. If you say you’re for families and don’t support funding this legislation and cause, there is a disconnect between your words and actions. Sharon Hirsch Emma Biggs Stephen Coggins Kristin Stout Benjamin Schachtman

👩🏫 Looking for valuable resources to enhance your child care services? Explore our curated collection designed to support and inspire child care providers like you. Learn more at ELCPinellas.org #ChildcareResources #EarlyEducation #ChildDevelopment #EducationalTools #LearningResources

Happy New Month, comrades– we made it 😁! Our word for the day is Care Planning, a collaborative process where a case worker involves both the child and family to identify key things that can be worked on to improve the child’s and family's well-being. This is done to prepare the child and family for a safe, healthy and successful transition into reunification or family placement. A Care Plan is developed based on family and child assessments and includes details on who will do what and when based on the child/family needs and strengths for both short and long-term goals. This helps ensure the child’s safety while considering their best interest throughout the reintegration process. #KnowYourTerms #CarePlanning #FamilybasedCare #ChildsBestInterest #ChildWelfare

How Child Care Policies Shape Communities: Impact on Families, Workplaces, and Local Development #qualitychildcare #communitydevelopment #worklifebalance #winstonsalem https://lnkd.in/d5qRvqRV

Important Update for Care Workers in the UK To all our hardworking care workers, please take note of the latest changes affecting your children currently in the UK: Longer Stay & Safety Standards: Your children can now potentially stay longer in the UK, as long as they meet the necessary safety standards. This aims to offer more security and continuity for your family life here. Parental Care Abroad: If another parent is available to care for your children in a different country, they will not be able to switch their stay to the UK. While these updates offer some flexibility, the main rule remains unchanged: care workers are still unable to bring their families to the UK. #CareWorkers #UKUpdates #FamilyMatters #Support

Critical opportunity for every America, parent, uncle, aunt, sibling, grandparents! And, not just because Senator Tim Kaine does such a great job in my own state of Virginia, but because there are critical opportunities in this package. Take a look! https://lnkd.in/eXKeJtj5 As Americans, we've understood that when we create companies and have employees that providing benefits to our employees enables a happy more productive employee. This package bolsters the underutilized Employer-Provided Child Care Tax Credit—commonly referred to as 45F—and encourages businesses to provide child care to their employees. The Kaine-Britt plan would increase the maximum credit from $150,000 to $500,000, and the percentage of expenses covered from 25% to 50%. The legislation also includes a larger incentive for small businesses—a maximum credit of $600,000—and allows for joint applications for groups of small businesses who want to pool resources. Tom Weber

We need businesses to support their workforce, but are employer-sponsored #ChildCare benefits a good idea worth incentivizing with taxpayer dollars? Elliot Haspel dives into supports organizations have been providing and the best ways employers can support their workers. https://lnkd.in/eUNX3F47

Curious about recent policy changes regarding child care and financial assistance income limits?🧐 Get a deeper understanding of these important updates in our latest community newsletter while seeing some of the work CASY CCRR has done in the past 3 months! Dive into it today: https://bit.ly/3Qsckcj #childcare #policychange #communityupdate #ccdfincomelimit #indiana #federal #ccrr #earlyeducation #resource

Today's word is Alternative (child) Care Alternative (child) care or out-of-home (child) care refers to a temporary or permanent full-time arrangement where a child is looked after (night and day) by a caregiver other than their parents. The icon below is the symbol of Alternative (child) Care #Alternativechildcare #nochildalone #weareSOSChildrensVillages

Early childhood education has been and still is my passion. Since my early years in the field, I have always emphasized that the only purpose should be the child's well-being and healthy physical, cognitive, and emotional development. However, funding and equal access have been two (among many others) constant reminders of how many other factors impact this field. Now that I work in an HR department and daily support employees and students with their childcare and families' needs, reading this report has fascinated me. #childcare #employeebenefits #childrenseducation https://lnkd.in/gQfmfqaB