EXCERPT FROM: Dayton Daily News
By Margo Rutledge Kissell
Home child care businesses in Ohio with six or fewer children have come under scrutiny from a prominent child care advocacy group citing a lack of state regulation.
EXCERPT FROM: Springfield News-Sun
By Bridgette Outten
SPRINGFIELD — The effects of Job and Family Services of Clark County’s budget cuts continue as the agency closed the doors of a small child care center located on its Lagonda campus this week.
EXCERPT FROM: Coshocton Tribune
By Valerie Boateng
COSHOCTON -- The one obstacle Coshocton County Head Start faced as the governing board for Rainbow Children's Center to keep the day care open is the same obstacle Rainbow staff ran into in order to save it. The longtime day care facility will cease operations effective Jan. 31 because of lack of funding.
EXCERPT FROM: 4C for Children
DAYTON (Dec. 22, 2009)—Eleven child care programs in Montgomery County have gone beyond state licensing requirements to earn a quality rating through Ohio’s Step Up To Quality program thanks to a special initiative by 4C for Children and ReadySetSoar, Montgomery County's early childhood initiative. Twelve programs were chosen as focus sites out of 34 that applied to the project in January 2008 to receive technical assistance from 4C staff and special financial incentives, both made possible by a grant from ReadySetSoar. (One selected program closed leaving 11 participating sites.)
EXCERPT FROM: Cincinnati.com
By Kimball Perry
The parents of a child allegedly drugged at day care are suing the day care and the church that owns it, accusing them of negligence, battery and negligent supervision.
CINCINNATI (Sept. 28, 2009)—Three local organizations responded to 4C for Children’s request for crayons, markers, colorful art paper and paint—all non-toxic and washable, or “kid-friendly”—as part of the 2009 United Way of Greater Cincinnati's “Community Care Days.” Employees at Convergys, Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc. and the in-house campaign committee at the United Way of Greater Cincinnati collected enough art supplies to make hundreds of art packets for children in child care settings throughout the 23 counties 4C serves.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Ohio has filed a $1.2 million lawsuit against a chain of day-care centers, claiming the chain paid 150 employees less than the minimum wage.
FAIRFIELD COUNTY — Fewer families will be eligible to receive assistance for child care costs as a result of recent state cuts to budgets of day care facilities.
NEWARK — Some local child care centers are reducing staff hours and benefits and looking at possibly cutting part-time care programs as the result of cuts to state child care subsidies that will go into effect Sunday.
Day-care centers across the state had been gearing up for a funding cut, but almost none expected what the new Ohio budget gave them two weeks ago.