Child Care Options - A Workplace Initiative for the 21st Century

Child Care Options presents the facts, the background information, and the special considerations involved in discussing and selecting on-site or near-site child care, as well as programs designed to deal with difficult child-care situations. As authorities in work/family relations, the authors share the firsthand knowledge and experience they have gained as consultants to such diverse groups as the Washington Post, American Labs, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

List of contents

Child Care! What Does That Have to Do with Our Business?
Child Care Choices: Multitudes in the Valley of Decision
Decisions: You Can Sleep on a Matter Before You Decide, Unless You Have a Competitor Who Doesn't Need the Sleep
A Child Care Center! What Are We Getting Into?
Legal Issues: The Good of the People Is the Chief Law
Finances: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Bottom Line
Child Care Facility Design: More Than Building Codes
Management: If We Do It, Who's Going to Run It?
Special Tips: Nothing Succeeds like Success
A Note to Small Businesses
An Invasion of Armies Can Be Resisted, but Not an Idea Whose Time Has Come
Appendixes
Executive Summaries
Partial Listings of Employer-Supported Child Care
Child Care Center Liability Insurance Carriers
Current Day Care Licensing Offices
Resources for Playground Information
A Sampling of Architectural Firms with Child Care Center Experience
Resource Organizations
Child Care Inventory (CCPI) Evaluation Criteria
Application for Board of Directors
Index

About the author

Madeline Fried, Margery L. Sher

Product details

• Authors: Madeline Fried, Fried Madeline, Margery Sher
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.1994
• EAN: 9780897748582
• ISBN: 978-0-89774-858-2
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Babysitting, Day Care & Child Care, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Office Management, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Child care & upbringing, Office & workplace, Personnel & human resources management, Child welfare, Office and workplace, Child care and upbringing: advice for parents, Child welfare and youth services, Personnel and human resources management, Current Events and Issues: Society