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Start Your Own Child-Care Service By Entrepreneur Press

Start Your Own Child-Care Service by Entrepreneur Press


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Summary

Whether you want to start a family-style child-care center in your home, a large center at a commercial site, or a niche business like child transportation, this guide helps you get started. It takes you step by step through the child-care industry, basic requirements and startup costs, day-to-day operations and more.

Start Your Own Child-Care Service Summary

Start Your Own Child-Care Service by Entrepreneur Press

Get Paid to Care for Kids!

Do you enjoy working with children? Would you like to help lighten the load on busy moms and dads? With more and more parents needing help to care for their children, the market for child-care services is exploding.

Whether you want to start a family-style child-care center in your home, a large center at a commercial site, or a niche business like child transportation, this guide can help you get started. Follow our experts as they take you step by step through the child-care industry, basic requirements and startup costs, day-to-day operations and so much more! Plus, gain priceless insight and tips from successful child-care service owners including how to conduct parent interviews, manage children's records and more.

Learn how to:

  • Discover your service offering within three common areas of interest-in-home center, commercial center, and child transportation services
  • Establish hours, services, and policies
  • Equip your center or vehicle to meet safety and health standards
  • Create admission procedures including parent interviews and record requests
  • Set and revise rates
  • Create a support staff who will help you succeed
  • Build referrals and get the word out

Rewarding for you and for the kids you care for--get started today!

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Table of Contents

Preface xi
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Chapter 2: Services and Policies 11
Chapter 3: Running Your Child-Care Business 25
Chapter 4: Structuring Your Business 41
Chapter 5: Start-Up Economics and Financial Management 57
Chapter 6: Locating and Setting Up 71
Chapter 7: Furnishing and Equipping Your Center 83
Chapter 8: Kitchen and Laundry Facilities 95
Chapter 9: Office Equipment 103
Chapter 10: Transportation Services 111
Chapter 11: Parent Relationships. 121
Chapter 12: Marketing. 129
Chapter 13: Staffing 139
Chapter 14: Facility Maintenance 155
Chapter 15: When Things Go Wrong 161
Chapter 16: Tales from the Trenches 173
Appendix 177
Glossary 181
Index 189

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GOR013455605
9781599184036
1599184036
Start Your Own Child-Care Service by Entrepreneur Press
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Entrepreneur Press
20110116
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