FSSA Child Care Rating System Expands To 40 More Counties

Posted in: Quality, Indiana
A state rating system for child care centers began enrolling providers in 40 southern, western and north-central counties Thursday, but a critic is promoting a boycott because she believes the program has a liberal agenda.


Child Care Rating System to go Statewide

Posted in: Quality, Indiana

Fort Wayne, IN -- Starting next month, the state will roll out a ratings system for child care providers, that was developed right here in Northeast Indiana.


Local child care program going statewide

Posted in: Quality, Indiana

A local program designed to improve the quality of child care and give parents a resource for finding and rating providers will be extended throughout Indiana beginning in January.


Rapid growth seen in lightly regulated child care ministries

Posted in: Indiana

The fast-growing business of child care ministries is drawing some concern about child safety and relatively light regulations.


State shifts $10M to boost child care fund

Posted in: CCDBG/TANF, Indiana
State officials have shifted $10 million in funding to provide child care vouchers to 2,000 children of parents working to get off of welfare.


Home entrepreneurs test child-care waters

Posted in: Child Care Workforce, Indiana

When Stephanie Tudor found out she was going to have a second child, she wanted to leave her job as a geriatric nurse to stay home with her baby. But her family needed her income, so she came up with a compromise: She would nurture her child and others—for a fee.


FSSA might face $10 million penalty over welfare-to-work rate

Posted in: Indiana, CCDBG/TANF
The federal government warned the state this week it faces a $10 million penalty for not moving enough welfare recipients into jobs and off public rolls in 2005.


By-the-hour child care center opens

Posted in: Indiana
A new concept in child care has come to Evansville's West side.


Child care loopholes enable predators

Posted in: Indiana
The state has in recent years passed laws that make it tougher than ever for sexual predators to operate a day care home, but loopholes in the licensing system still exist.