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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED129417 AUTHOR: Douglas, Jane I., Ed.
TITLE: Dollars and Sense: Employer-Supported Child Care. A
Study on Child Care Needs, and the Realities of Employer
Support.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
NOTE: 359 p.
ABSTRACT: This report briefly discusses present rationales,
future prospects, and methods and procedures involved in
employer support of child care. It is based on a study
which
was intended to test the feasibility of providing child
care
and youth programs, through a system design, for employees
of resort hotels and the primary labor union involved with
the hotels. A state-wide survey of child care needs in
Nevada was conducted followed by a special study of Clark
County, which has 56% of the state's child population. In
addition, members of the Culinary Union in Las Vegas and
Reno were surveyed as to their needs and attitudes toward
child care. A system was developed for measuring the
quality
of child care facilities and the competence of caregivers.
Also, a study was made of current programs of employer
supported child care throughout the United States. Examples
of such programs are described, and federal government
policies which promote industrial child care are discussed.
Lengthy appendices, which make up the bulk of the document,
include: (1) detailed reports of the survey of union
members
and the survey of the Clark County general population, as
well as a brief comparison of the two surveys; and (2) an
extensive draft of a voluntary accreditation system
proposed
for the state of Nevada which consists of separate
procedural manuals for accrediting child care facilities
and
credentialing staff members who serve as directors,
caregivers, or joint director/caregivers. (BF)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Accreditation-Institutions; Administrator
Evaluation; Affirmative-Action; Credentials-; Employed
Women; Employer-Attitudes; Equal-Opportunities-Jobs;
Federal
Legislation; Government-Employees; Performance-Criteria;
Preschool-Education; Questionnaires-;
Social-Responsibility;
Surveys-; Teacher-Evaluation
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Child-Care; *Child-Caregivers; *Day-Care;
*Employed-Parents; *Employer-Employee-Relationship;
*Financial-Support; *Unions-
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