Family Child Care Contracts & Policies, Fourth Edition

Family Child Care Contracts and Policies, Fourth Edition offers the most up-to-date tools for family child care providers to establish and enforce contracts and policies. Topics include, how to establish good business relationships with parents, what to look for before signing contracts with parents, what information is vital to include in contracts and policies, how to prevent conflicts with parents over contracts and policies, when and how to end a contract.Updates to the new Fourth Edition include offering and charging for part-time care and extended carerates and policies for child care during the summer monthsexpanded advice for how to handle siblings and family discountsexpanded advice on charging for vacation timehow to handle parent objections to paying for care when a child stays homeinformation on bad-weather policiesadvice on how to deal with parents visiting during program hourscaring for children who aren't immunizedexpanded advice for how to turn down a clientupdated information on comparing income to minimum wageexpanded advice for how enforce polices that previously weren't enforced