Attorney Janice C Mendal shares tips about what is the latest from Licensing, and how to ensure you remain in compliance with a mini-inspection checklist. Happy Holidays!

Improving the quality of child care providers offer to families is a primary motivation for many providers who have organized their unions across the country. In fact, a 2010 study by the National Women’s Law Center found nine of the twelve state contracts negotiated by providers included wins for license-exempt providers to have greater access to training, professional development, and support structures to gain their license. Here are some of the highlights.

Learn what has changed for the mandatory abuse reporter training requirement. Most providers will have to renew their certification next year. We also sat with the California Department of Education and Community Care Licensing for our quarterly input meetings.

In April, CCRC introduced a new attendance form so we asked to sit down and have a conversation so providers can ask questions. Together, we helped clarified our doubts and ensure we will get our payments on time. Tips for the new form are inside!

On Labor Day, providers were out in full force in Southern California calling on our union brothers and sisters to stand with family child care providers in our fight to gain collective bargaining through AB 378. We encouraged fellow union members in Long Beach and the Inland Empire to check in with their local legislators, community organizations, or labor councils to urge them to support AB 378.