To educate families about the child care, the Virginia Department of Social Services started a website which also aims to address a number of issues about the matter. It is specifically targeted to make parents aware of what their options are when it comes to child care.
In a report, NBC12 said the Virginia Child Care website discusses health and safety topics on child care in the state. "It is just one of a number of initiatives that Virginia continues to roll out in 2015 to strengthen the quality of care in Virginia," said Social Services Director Barbara Newlin.
She explained that parents can go to the website to learn more about their child care options in Virginia. Newlin said this will help them ensure that the provider is licensed and can be trusted with the lives of their kids.
"What it means, if a child care provider is quality-rated or if that child care provider is licensed, they can understand the types of training that are available to child care providers," she added in the NBC12 report. "[It will] help them find information to understand why it's important to have their child in a licensed high-quality setting each day."
Looking at the website, parents can browse through a number of tabs and sections like finding a child care provider, how to pay for these providers and who are the licensed providers in their list. An interesting highlight of the Virginia Child Care website is the statistics that 65 percent of American children below 6 have working moms and dads.
Newlin said there is a great need for this website since children should be extremely valued by their parents. Giving them the best and most appropriate childcare service should be a priority.
The social services director claimed that children are very vulnerable and still do not have the capacity to look out for themselves. "It really is up to each parent to make to do the research necessary to find a high-quality setting for their child," Newlin added.
