Sick Child Daycare
October 24, 2008
To: VP of Human Resource
From: Cindy Nguyen
Subject: The Need for Sick Child Care
Day Care is a part of all working parents in the United States. There is a huge unmet need for sick child care. Working mothers become absent from work due to the fact that their children are not allowed to attend regular child care programs. More than 350,000 children under the age of 14 years of age are too sick to attend school or day care.
When one of the workers needs to leave suddenly to take care of a sick child, the employers are usually less than thrilled. Parents of sick children may also face the angry employers, and in the process have their paychecks docked for missed work, and they still have to pay the daycare fees even if the child is absent or can’t stay in the daycare. …show more content…
You could save costs of a replacement or lost work-time when an employee uses a sick child care program rather than the worker staying home with a child. Sick child care programs can provide an alternative for days when a child is mildly ill.
The National Association for Sick Child Daycare (NASCD) is a non-profit, educational organization that is designed to quantify the need for sick child care. They support the establishment of high quality sick child care programs nationwide. They also promote the establishment of new sick child care services by researching and disseminating needed information and promote and participate in sick child care research. They will provide as much information as needed.
There are some disadvantages of a sick child care program. Some disadvantages could be the monitoring quality control difficulty in the visiting nurse program, the caregiver or surroundings may be unfamiliar to the child, the difficulty in recruiting or retaining qualified staff and usage may be low due to the unfamiliarity of the
To: VP of Human Resource
From: Cindy Nguyen
Subject: The Need for Sick Child Care
Day Care is a part of all working parents in the United States. There is a huge unmet need for sick child care. Working mothers become absent from work due to the fact that their children are not allowed to attend regular child care programs. More than 350,000 children under the age of 14 years of age are too sick to attend school or day care.
When one of the workers needs to leave suddenly to take care of a sick child, the employers are usually less than thrilled. Parents of sick children may also face the angry employers, and in the process have their paychecks docked for missed work, and they still have to pay the daycare fees even if the child is absent or can’t stay in the daycare. …show more content…
You could save costs of a replacement or lost work-time when an employee uses a sick child care program rather than the worker staying home with a child. Sick child care programs can provide an alternative for days when a child is mildly ill.
The National Association for Sick Child Daycare (NASCD) is a non-profit, educational organization that is designed to quantify the need for sick child care. They support the establishment of high quality sick child care programs nationwide. They also promote the establishment of new sick child care services by researching and disseminating needed information and promote and participate in sick child care research. They will provide as much information as needed.
There are some disadvantages of a sick child care program. Some disadvantages could be the monitoring quality control difficulty in the visiting nurse program, the caregiver or surroundings may be unfamiliar to the child, the difficulty in recruiting or retaining qualified staff and usage may be low due to the unfamiliarity of the