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This checklist is designed to be utilized as a self-assessment tool by states and territories as they review their child care consumer education website for 1) alignment with CCDF consumer education website requirements; 2) recommendations within the preamble to the CCDF Final Rule; and 3) additional best practice considerations for user-friendly website design. The items within each section of the checklist reference the regulatory requirements within the CCDBG Act of 2014 and the CCDF Final Rule at 45 C.F.R. 98.33.
The tool can also be used to track the state or territory’s progress with its design and implementation of the child care consumer education website. Some of the consumer education information may be provided by offering a link to child care licensing, child care resource and referral (CCR&R) agencies, the child care subsidy website, and other state or territory government departments, offices, or agencies that offer the required child care consumer education information. The tool can also be helpful to document the URLs and links to other sites providing consumer education.
Defines mixed delivery systems and family choice and how they are related and important Describes data elements that are important to consider and collect: Documenting and demonstrating change in MDS Information families need to make choices Demonstrates an example of providing families with data that improves their ability to make choices
This tool is designed to support State child care leaders and I/T stakeholders as they assess, prioritize, plan, implement, and evaluate State policies to strengthen the quality of child care services that infants, toddlers, and their families receive. The tool also aims to assist I/T child care leaders as they create strategies, policies, protocols, and systems that:
Identify relationship-based care as essential to quality infant/toddler child care; Engage, inform, and connect with families of infants and toddlers; Strengthen the quality and conditions of the infant/toddler workforce to help meet the unique needs of infants and toddlers in child care settings; Increase the supply, health and safety, sustainability, and quality of infant/toddler child care settings; Coordinate and integrate cross-sector systems that serve infants, toddlers, and their families; and Support infants, toddlers, and their families through emergencies and disasters.