So, what’s missing from this beautiful piece of legislation?
How about this: Currently licensed home day care providers are required to obtain an initial 15 clock hours of education to become licensed, then 5 clock hours every 12 months. While they do have to complete a 1st Aide Course in the initial 15 clock hours, they are never required to take Pediatric CPR or to maintain a current Certification in it. How does this basic matter get left out of a Bill that is about making child care across the State safer for children? This Bill doesn’t even address the education requirements for the new class of Family Child Care Home providers.
How do you feel about such education requirements (or the lack thereof) with regards to Pediatric CPR?
Of course there is - NUMBERS, in this case the LACK of them. What you may not know is that KDHE has shared no numbers about the breakdown of the various types of child care facilities (Centers, Preschools, After-care & Drop-in Programs, licensed Home & Group Home Day Cares, and Registered Homes) by County. They have not even supplied any reports to indicate that have considered the numbers by County with relationship to their staff of surveyors - to show the probability of success (or the challenges they will face) in implementing a risk-based system.
How about this: Currently licensed home day care providers are required to obtain an initial 15 clock hours of education to become licensed, then 5 clock hours every 12 months. While they do have to complete a 1st Aide Course in the initial 15 clock hours, they are never required to take Pediatric CPR or to maintain a current Certification in it. How does this basic matter get left out of a Bill that is about making child care across the State safer for children? This Bill doesn’t even address the education requirements for the new class of Family Child Care Home providers.
How do you feel about such education requirements (or the lack thereof) with regards to Pediatric CPR?
Of course there is - NUMBERS, in this case the LACK of them. What you may not know is that KDHE has shared no numbers about the breakdown of the various types of child care facilities (Centers, Preschools, After-care & Drop-in Programs, licensed Home & Group Home Day Cares, and Registered Homes) by County. They have not even supplied any reports to indicate that have considered the numbers by County with relationship to their staff of surveyors - to show the probability of success (or the challenges they will face) in implementing a risk-based system.
According to what I heard the other day from the Senate floor, the best we know is that 14 more progressive States use such a system. Wow, they couldn’t even name those States either. Wonder if those States have as diverse a landscape as Kansas? We have some very rural settings that rely on health department nurses to inspect providers – what could the impact be to these health departments (and the children and adults they serve for medical care) if their nurses are called out to inspect an unidentified number of providers?
KDHE testified they do not have such numbers by County – and they oversee all child care facilities? No numbers? I wonder if they can, but aren’t - maybe their numbers do not support a risk-based-system. Maybe those numbers are hiding some serious inefficiency within KDHE and they have them, but cannot share them.
KDHE testified they do not have such numbers by County – and they oversee all child care facilities? No numbers? I wonder if they can, but aren’t - maybe their numbers do not support a risk-based-system. Maybe those numbers are hiding some serious inefficiency within KDHE and they have them, but cannot share them.
Maybe the risk-based system is just the answer to “Inspect the Rest” allowing that all child care facilities can be (but quite honestly won’t be) inspected. Maybe KDHE can’t afford to keep up inspections and this is their “out” to ensuring the safety of children across our State.
Do you have anything to tell your Senators about the missing numbers?
I’m going to “turn on” the comments to this blog – just for fun. If you see a link to any Kansas Action for Children fact sheets, know that they aren’t real facts. Take a look, come back find your page numbers from my summary and link to the Bill – you will see the truth.
I also think that truth is in the numbers – but the lack of numbers may be telling us there is no “truth” that supports the risk-based-system.
Do you have anything to tell your Senators about the missing numbers?
I’m going to “turn on” the comments to this blog – just for fun. If you see a link to any Kansas Action for Children fact sheets, know that they aren’t real facts. Take a look, come back find your page numbers from my summary and link to the Bill – you will see the truth.
I also think that truth is in the numbers – but the lack of numbers may be telling us there is no “truth” that supports the risk-based-system.
You can click on "older posts" below to find my full summary of the new gut-n-go bill HB2356 that could be voted on tomorrow, a list of all Senators email lists that you can “copy paste” from, and a list of phone numbers (local JOCO/WYCO Senators on top) on the tab next to home at the top of the blog. AGAIN, BE SURE YOU NOTE SB447 AND HB2356 IN YOUR SUBJECT LINE.
They are swamped, ending this term’s business – if you really want your email read, send it and call their offices and request their Secretaries pull your email, print it off, and hand it to a Senator. It is work, but these are our kids and we all work for our kids, don’t we?
They are swamped, ending this term’s business – if you really want your email read, send it and call their offices and request their Secretaries pull your email, print it off, and hand it to a Senator. It is work, but these are our kids and we all work for our kids, don’t we?
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