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The Child Care Collaborative Regulation Committee Power Point
The Child Care Collaborative Regulation Committee (CCRC) meets bi-weekly to address regulatory matters and respond to questions concerning child health and safety in Kentucky. The CCRC is led by the Division of Child Care and includes representatives from related state departments and programs. The CCRC aims to uniformly enforce child care regulations through technical assistance, projects, and responding to emails. It provides resources via websites on its activities, regulations, and frequently asked questions.
The Child Care Collaborative Regulation Committee Power Point
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- 2. Purpose The Child CareCollaborative Regulation Committee (CCRC) convenes bi-weekly to proactively address regulatory matters and systematically respond to early childhood professional questions concerning the health and safety of Kentucky’s children.
- 3. The CCRC isled by the Division of Child Care and composed of representatives from the Division of Regulated Child Care, Child Care Aware, and Child Care Health Consultants of the Department for Public Health. Membership
- 4. Special Guest • Childand Adult Care Food Program-CACFP • First Steps Representatives • Early Head Start • Governor’s Office OF Early Childhood Education • ECE- Training Records Information System • STARS • Quality Enhancement Initiative • Representatives form the Early Childhood Community
- 5. Goals and Objective TheCCRC’s goal is to improve the statewide understanding of child care administrative regulations by adopting, implementing, and communicating a uniform enforcement of child care administrative regulations.
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- 7. Technical Assistance The CCRCprovides technical assistance tip sheets, forms, and resources to coordinators, surveyors, counselors, consultants, training agencies, and providers.
- 8. Projects 2013 In thepast year the committee has been effectively working on many projects •The Getting Started in Child Care Program •Renewal Program •Director forums in each ADD
- 9. Technical Assistance Tools Partneredwith Child Care Aware of Kentucky in creating three webpages for surveyors, specialist, coordinators, early educators, director’s and providers. Child Care Regulation page Frequently Asked Questions Tools and Tips Page
- 10. Email The CCRC respondsto questions, comments and matters affecting the operations, funding, and licensing of child-care centers and certified family child-care homes submitted to childcare.regulation@ky.gov
- 11. Website(s) • Updates onChild Care Kentucky Administrative Regulations http://www.kentuckypartnership.org/childcareregulations.aspx • Links for Child Care Tools, Tips, Forms and Resources http://www.kentuckypartnership.org/toolsandtips.aspx • Child Care Assistance Program Information http://www.childcarecouncilofky.com/go/151/New_Child_Care_Regulations.html • Frequently Asked questions http://www.kentuckypartnership.org/Info/ecpro/childcareregulations/FAQ.aspx • Division of Child Care ECE-Insider Newsletter http://chfs.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/337605CB-68EC-44B4-BE5E- 070A47EDB894/0/DivisionofChildCareECEINSIDERnewsletter.pdf
Editor's Notes
- #5 CACFP Food program First steps Early Head Starts Governor Office Division of Regulated Child Care Surveyors ECE Tris Representative from our provider community
- #9 Developed and successfully implemented the Getting Started in Child Care Program- A Consultation service which streamlines the application process for potential providers and assures that child care centers are opening at higher standard of care than in the past. Due to the success of the Getting Started in Child Care program the committee followed that up one year later with a Renewal Program for child care providers. This program uses the Technical assistant coordinators working directly with provider to assure the application are completed and submitted as required. In addition the technical assistant coordinators conduct walk through surveys and provides assistance with preparing the corrective action for the renewal. Proactively collaborated with Division of Regulated Child Care to provided director forums in each ADD to discuss upcoming regulations changes.
- #10 Child Care Regulation page provides access to power points, links to regulations, highlights changes and new regulations, child care assistance program, and a frequently asked question page Tools and Tips page provides up to date tip sheets for providers that coincide with the regulations, required forms that meet the minimum required standards, direct access background checks and CAN checks, sample child care forms for providers to utilize, constantly streaming consumer safety product recalls, as well as important contact information for providers