Unit 4 lab early childhood education The Legal Side of Childcare Facilities
You are the owner and director of a small childcare facility. You recently closed down your facility to completely remodel both the physical structure and the operational structure.

The physical renovations are finally complete, and you have been working on hiring a new team of employees and getting them properly trained and educated not only on the procedures for your facility but on the policies imposed on childcare facilities by the state in which you reside.

In order to help you convey a lot of information to your new hires all at once in an organized way, you’ve decided to make a slideshow presentation to use and discuss during your introductory training meeting. You want to give your new employees an overview of the legal policies that go along with working in a childcare facility.

The items that you will discuss and explain are:

A basic overview of the components of your state's statutes as they relate to areas of child care standards
Minimum state standards for screening owners, operators, staff, and volunteers of childcare centers
Current childcare issues and proposed laws and ordinances that govern state and local licensing and inspection of childcare facilities
Legislation and public policies affecting young children and school-age children
Legal requirement and protection provided to childcare workers in reporting suspected child abuse and neglect according to your state's law
Note: If you cannot locate this information for your state, you can pretend to operate your Childcare Facility in Florida. These websites can help you get started:

Florida Child Care Statutes Sections
Florida Department of Children and Families
You want to deliver clear and concise information in your presentation, complete with any pertinent images, graphs, and tables. Avoid overly-long paragraphs and aim to include bullet points and shorter notes as often as possible. While the presentation and the information that you include will be very fact-based, you can add a bit of personalization to the whole thing in your verbal delivery of the information, which you will record on video for this lab.

Begin by researching all of the topics that you’ve chosen to include in your presentation starting with the links provided above as well as expanding your search to other websites that you find.

Next, you will compile all of this information in an organized and abbreviated manner in a slideshow presentation.

Finally, you will set up a video camera to record yourself presenting and explaining the slideshow presentation as if you were leading your employee meeting.

You will submit a list of the websites that you used in your research, your slideshow presentation, and your video for grading.

Please refer to the rubric below for information on how you will be graded.