Smart Start and preschool child care quality in North Carolina: Change over time and relations to children's readiness
Publication Date:
Saturday, March 1, 2003
Online Document Type:
Research, policy & practice
The issue of auspice in child care has been debated in Canada for many years and for several reasons. One reason for this is the consistent research finding that commercial child care centres as a group obtain lower ratings for overall program quality than do non-profit centres. Other reasons include the belief that essential services such as child care should be publicly operated, and concerns about ensuring accountability for the use of public funds if they are flowed to commercial operators. This study explores the issue of auspice from the perspective of program quality.