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Operating directly or providing financial assistance to
organizations (including private non-profit organizations, public
organizations, and units of general purpose local government) for
development, establishment, expansion, operation, and
coordination of resource and referral programs specifically related
to child care;
Making grants or providing loans to child care providers to assist
such providers in meeting applicable State, local, and tribal child
care standards, including applicable health and safety
requirements;
Improving the monitoring of compliance with, and enforcement
of, applicable State, local, and tribal requirements;
Providing training and technical assistance in areas appropriate to
the provision of child care services, such as training in health and
safety, nutrition, first-aid, the recognition of communicable
diseases, child abuse detect on and prevention, and care of
children with special needs.
Improving salaries and other compensation (such as fringe
benefits) for full-and part-time staff who provide child care
services for which assistance is provided under this part; and
Any other activities that are consistent with the intent of
improving the quality and availability of care (21)
In addition, federal appropriations acts have earmarked particular funds for other quality-related
expenditures.
Standards and Monitoring
CCDF does not have national Performance Standards. It does have federal requirements that states
have and enforce health and safety standards snoted above. A state could choose to pay higher
payment rates for providers meeting specific state performance standards, but a state probably
could not impose performance standards on all viders benefitting from CCDF-assisted subsidies,
because such a requirement would likely violate the "parental choice" requirements of federal law.
In contrast with Head Start, the federal government does not routinely monitor the performance of
individual providers under CCDF. There is a limited federal role in monitoring state performance.
The federal Department of Health and Human Services is authorized to monitor programs funded
under the CCDF for compliance with federal law, though the law does not impose any specific
requirement for periodic monitoring of state performance. If a review or investigation reveals
evidence that the Lead Agency, or any entity providing services under contract or agreement with
the Lead Agency, had failed to substantially comply with the state's CCDF Plan or with one or more
provision of the Act or implementing regulations, the Secretary of Health and Human Services is
authorized to take action, which can involve (after notice and hearing) imposing fiscal penalties or
disallowances on states, disqualifying a lead agency, or imposing other sanctions (22) The federal
agency is also authorized to investigate complaints that a state has violated its plan or federal
law (23)
Staffing
There are no federal requirements for educational or other qualifications of staff of providers of
CCDF-funded child care services. A state can elect to impose its own requirements (subject to the
parental choice requirements of the law).
CCDF does not have a set-aside for training and technical assistance comparable to the 2% set-aside
in Head Start. As noted, states are required to spend at least 4% of CCDF funds for "quality"
expenditures but the state has many choices in deciding which initiatives should be undertaken to
satisfy the 4% requirement. Thus, spending for training and technical assistance could, but need not,
be part of state's CCDF expenditures.
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