Creating Family-Friendly Policies: Are Child Care Center Policies in Line with Current Family Realities?.

Copeland, Margaret Leitch; McCreedy, Barbara S.

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ERIC Number: EJ539871

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Publication Date: 1997

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Creating Family-Friendly Policies: Are Child Care Center Policies in Line with Current Family Realities?

Copeland, Margaret Leitch; McCreedy, Barbara S.

Child Care Information Exchange, n113 p7-10,12 Jan-Feb 1997

Argues that corporate downsizing, flex time, and blended families have created new child care needs. Suggests child care centers update policies by examining staff attitudes, evaluating enrollment policies, offering flexibility, involving parents in decision making, creating a family-friendly physical environment, communicating creatively, and offering program "perks" to support families. (SD)

Descriptors: Careers, Caregiver Role, Child Caregivers, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Dual Career Family, Early Childhood Education, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Family Needs, Family School Relationship, Family Work Relationship, Participative Decision Making, Policy Formation

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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