Child Care

Child care, otherwise known as day care, is the care and supervision of a child or multiple children at a time, whose ages range from two weeks to twenty years. Child care is a broad topic that covers a wide spectrum of professionals, institutions, contexts, activities, and social and cultural conventions. Early child care is an equally important and often overlooked component of child development.Care facilitated by similar-aged children covers a variety of developmental and psychological effects in both caregivers and charge. This is due to their mental development being in a particular case of not being able to progress …

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WHO: World Health Organization · 21 November 2024 English

vi, 69 p.

costs and cost-effectiveness of comprehensive child care? • What are the long-term effects of such care


WHO: World Health Organization · 15 November 2024 English

ix, 33 p.

Representatives Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care: Anna Machiha, National STI Prevention and Condom




Urban Institute · 13 November 2024 English

Safety is a crucial factor families consider when searching for child care. Child care facilities take many steps to create healthy and safe environments, and licensing systems help monitor and support Education (OSSE) to better understand the prevalence and types of required safety corrections across child care settings.

features families look for when searching for child care is safety (Sandstrom et al. 2024). Unlike practical this challenge, the 2014 reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act and the resulting required states to make information on individual child care facilities publicly available on a searchable Despite the increased availability of data on child care facilities and their program safety and quality demonstrated concerns requiring correction and child care programs that might benefit from additional


World Bank Group · 12 November 2024 English

This paper investigates the parenthood penalty in Indonesian labor markets, with a focus on gender disparities. It uses longitudinal data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey from 1993 to 2014 …

as they could rely on the extended family for child care. As we have observed before, the impact of parenthood


World Bank Group · 12 November 2024 English

This report reviews Uganda’s legal, policy, and institutional framework for center-based childcare provision for children under three, providing critical insights for the Generating Growth Opportunities and Productivity for Women Enterprises …

three fundamental dimensions—or pillars—of child- care services: (1) availability; (2) affordability; rather than enrolling their children in formal child- care (Devercelli and Beaton-Day 2020; Sakhonchik, are needed for quality standards applicable to child- care service provision for children under three years (Devercelli and Beaton-Day 2020). Providing child- care subsidies and childcare vouchers has proved and Malta; tax breaks to incentivize nonstate child- care providers, or inputs such as paying salaries


World Bank Group · 12 November 2024 English

This report, written at the request of the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) in Saudi Arabia, explores the importance of addressing care challenges in Saudi Arabia. The report examines …

in- cluding higher life expectancy and better child- care, healthcare, and education systems (as ex- plored pres- ent— for instance, older persons care, child- care and healthcare facilities or home-based, or



Urban Institute · 12 November 2024 English

This brief answers key questions about the wages that California public school food service workers in various occupations would need to afford local one-bedroom housing, as well as their job …

score below other food service, health care, and child care occupations. Data Sources and Methods Table 0.3 0.3 0.6 0.7 0.4 0.0 0.9 0.6 3.8 Child care workers 0.1 0.5 0.9 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.9 0 occupations, such as entry-level health care, child care, janitorial work, retail, and fast food work students, who often balance school with work and child care responsibilities. He has an MS in chemistry


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