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In 2024, states have made significant strides in child care policy, building on the previous year’s legislative momentum. Child Care Aware of America's latest analysis, "State Session Round-Up: Summer 2024," provides a clear overview of this year's key legislative developments. Some highlights include: ?? Continued support through stabilization grants and wage boosts for providers ?? New requirements from the 2024 CCDF Final Rule ?? Increased state funding and improved subsidy reimbursement ?? Expanded subsidy eligibility and innovative cost-sharing models ?? Boosted funding for mixed-delivery preschool programs You can find the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gBCNRW7t

Alberta’s government is committed to affordable, accessible, high-quality, safe and inclusive child care that maintains choice for Alberta families. Families want to find a safe, healthy environment that supports the social, physical, intellectual, creative and emotional development of their children. Alberta’s government is committed to improving enforcement, accountability and accessibility across the sector through our legislative changes. To maintain public trust in our child care system, Alberta’s government is fixing our legislation to increase oversight, provide more information to parents, shut down unsafe programs and administer fair and meaningful penalties when providers fail to meet vital safety standards. Overall, the proposed changes to the Act will strengthen our child care system, making it safer for our kids and more affordable for families. ?

The childcare workforce crisis is impacting the ECE sector and children from birth to school age…. Pre-K Counts… Headstart… It is impacting families…. It is impacting business… it is impacting our society as a WHOLE! The investment has to come, the elevation of the field has to surface, the importance of this work has to be acknowledged with sustainable investments and meaningful strategies. The work will be worth it, support the people who are supporting our communities ?? #FIXCHILDCARE https://lnkd.in/en6uMRgF

URGENT! – Congress is making decisions RIGHT NOW about funding for child care and early learning programs like Head Start, CCDBG, and PDG B-5. Congress must protect and prioritize this funding for working families, young children and employers! #ChildCareChampion

URGENT! – Congress is making decisions RIGHT NOW about funding for child care and early learning programs like Head Start, CCDBG, and PDG B-5. Congress must protect and prioritize this funding for working families, young children and employers! #ChildCareChampion

Congress members are starting to make?decisions about funding for early learning and child care programs. Please take a minute to?urge your Congress members to prioritize and protect essential funding, including Head Start, Early Head Start, the Child Care & Development Block Grant, and Preschool Development Grants Birth-5. Call, email, and tweet your Congress members?to make sure the issue remains urgent and visible. Use this toolkit to help you get started:?https://lnkd.in/gR2ZNe-E

Continuing advocacy is necessary to urge action from state and federal gov't to build a better early learning and care system. From the study: The true cost of child care in Seattle and King County is significantly higher than families can afford to pay, or than current subsidy rates will reimburse, leaving a funding gap that impacts the stability and sustainability of the child care sector. The true cost of child care when caregivers receive a living wage and benefits is around $40,000 a year for an infant, $30,000 for a toddler, $25,000 for a preschooler, and $13,000 for a school-age child.

This report lays bare how broken the childcare system has become, particularly in Seattle. Despite the fact that true cost of care for infants is as high as 35% for the MEDIAN household income in King County, the teachers, who are mostly women and POC, are paid almost 37% less than comparable non-care industry positions due to artificially suppressed costs. Given how critical childcare is, particularly at infant and toddler ages, for women and POCs to stay in science and medicine, this is something that we need to do a better job at. We need to continue advocacy and raise these true cost statistics to those in leadership positions who believe that childcare costs are no worse today than they were when they had kids in the system. We also need state and federal governments to act to ensure pay equity for teachers who shape our kids at a critical time in their lives. #childcarecrisis #retention #womeninscience #womeninhealthcare

Survey for children and young people about plans to improve education for those with additional needs We want to hear from children and young people in Torbay about Torbay Council’s plans to improve educational services for children with additional needs. In addition to the existing survey for adults we now have a simplified survey for children and young people which you can access on our website. In the survey you will find information about the things we plan to do, such as – ? Working with partners including your school, local doctors and nurses, parents, and other community helpers as part of a local ‘Cluster’ ? Getting help more quickly without necessarily needing an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) ? Creating new Enhanced Resource Bases (ERPs) to help young people who find it hard to stay in a regular classroom all day and might need to learn in smaller groups. ? Making better use of Parkfield as a ‘multi-use’ hub. Find out more and have your say: https://orlo.uk/Ukl69

In our latest entry on public education, we examine the enormous challenges to funding for public education. Faced with a disingenuous, if not dangerous, push to allocate more funding for private schooling options, public schools may be facing a threat to their very survival. Civic Way founder Bob Melville examines these challenges and offers potential solutions. https://lnkd.in/efFYZQ47