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These Guidelines are for all persons taking care of children. The goal of these Guidelines is to empower parents, the family and community structures to effectively nurture children so that they can realise their full potential.
The Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support were issued by the California Network of Family Strengthening Networks (CNFSN) in 2012, and adopted by the National Family Support Network in 2013. They are the first and only standards in the country to integrate and operationalize the Principles of Family Support Practice with the Strengthening Families Frameworks and its research-based evidence-informed 5 Protective Factors. The vision is that their implementation will help ensure that families are supported and strengthened through quality …
WHAT: A set of standards for agencies that provide child care/day care services within the family home e.g. nannies, child minders, and babysitters.
WHO: Childcare agencies, professional child caregivers, parents and children. Also for policy makers and those assessing the quality of services of childcare agencies.
WHERE: These standards are for day care services in Scotland, UK. Significant modifications would be required to be able to use this document in other settings.
WHY: Serves as…
Day care centers, further referred to as DCC, are child protection services aiming at preventing child abandonment and institutionalization, by providing, during daytime, activities such as care, education, recreation-socializing, counseling, development of independent life skills, school and professional guidance etc. for children, and support, counseling, education activities for parents or legal representatives, as well as for other individuals having children in care.
The services provided by DCC are complementary to the efforts of the child’s own family, as these derive from parental…