State officials recently announced the launch of a new public awareness campaign to highlight a quality rating system that helps parents search for child care.
The Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students and Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning are promoting Quality Rated. Similar to rating systems for restaurants and hotels, Quality Rated assigns one, two or three stars to child-care programs that meet certain standards in early childhood education over and above the state licensing requirements for health and safety.
Quality Rated has an online database where Georgia parents and families can find information on quality programs in their area, whether they’re offered in a home, preschool or school.
The campaign will include public service announcements on television and radio throughout Georgia and through online advertisements targeting families searching for child care. The campaign officially launched Saturday at the Atlanta Baby & Child Expo at the Fox Theater in Atlanta.
Families looking for child care can learn more about a Quality Rated child-care program at www.qualityrated.org and can search for Quality Rated child care programs on the DECAL website at www.decal.ga.gov.
Gov. Nathan Deal and DECAL launched Quality Rated July 2013. Currently, 954 child care programs in Georgia (19 percent of eligible child care programs) are Quality Rated, with an additional 1,631 child care programs in the process of becoming Quality Rated.
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