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Care for Newcomer Children Requirements (CNCR)

CNC Implementation Checklist for Administrators

The CNC Implementation Checklist is a simplified tool that will help you manage the CNC implementation process for your organization. The checklist enables you to:

  • Quickly assess where your organization is in the implementation process
  • Identify key steps to take
  • Assign tasks and set timelines to customize your plan
  • Check items off the list when they are successfully completed!

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Answers to Your CNC Questions

Thank you for all of your CNC questions and feedback! We have compiled some of the recent most frequently asked questions, and provided answers to help you understand CNC, and how to implement the changes. This list of questions and answers will be added to on a regular basis to keep you up-to-date and informed! Read More

Care For Newcomer Children (CNC): Highlights

Care for Newcomer Children (CNC) is a new childcare support service that enables eligible parents to attend CIC-funded settlement services, while their children receive care at the same site.

CNC, will be implemented in April 2013 and will replace LINC Childminding and Occasional Child Care.

Development of the CNC model was carried out from July 2009 through March 2010 in consultation with representatives of stakeholder groups from across the country and with the guidance of experts in the early childhood field. In 2011/12, elements of the new CNC model were piloted at two Service Providing Organizations (SPOs), with a third-party assessment of the pilot model undertaken in January, 2012.

The CNC model provides flexibility and choice. Rather than providing child care support for individual CIC-funded services, SPOs will be able to support all adult services within a single child care program. This program model reduces barriers, increases efficiency and service uptake, and allows SPOs to care for more children and better meet the needs of the newcomer families they serve.

SPOs will choose the type of care that will best complement CIC-funded settlement service delivery. Final decisions on services and the type of care offered are subject to CIC approval.

Types of Care

SPOs currently offering licensed care can continue to do so.

Care For Newcomer Children (CNC): Questions and Answers

1. Why do we need a new model of care?

CIC saw a need for a change in the child care supports to assist SPOs in offering care to parents. During the consultation for a new child care model SPOs expressed their ideas from which the CNC program grew. The CNC model provides more flexibility and choice. Rather than providing child care support for individual CIC-funded services, you are able to support all CIC-funded adult services within a single child care program. This is an opportunity to review and revise outdated practices and become more efficient in providing and managing the care of children.

In general, the CNC program model allows you to care for more children and better meet the needs of the newcomer families you serve.

2. What requirements will we need to follow?

A new set of requirements have been developed that will replace the National LINC Childminding Requirements and the Occasional Child Care Requirements. The information in the Highlights and Bulletin reflect the information found in the requirements. The full requirements will be available at the end of the year.

3. Is Long Term care really just childminding?

Long Term care is one of the three types of care in the CNC model.

About CMAS

Overview

CMAS works with LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) Childminding programs, which offer on-site care for the children of parents learning English as a second language.

CMAS supports childminders in providing the best possible environment and services for newcomer children and their families.

CMAS provides childminding programs with current information on essential issues such as child health, safety and well being, emergency management, newcomer settlement, and parenting in a diverse culture.

CMAS supports, monitors and advises childminding programs on health and safety issues, administration, and programming. CMAS helps programs to stay informed and accountable.

CMAS assists LINC Childminding programs in meeting the National LINC Childminding Requirements (NLCR).

Disclaimer

Information contained on this website has been provided as a public service and is intended to provide the user with general information of interest. It should not be relied upon to provide specific information for your individual situation. While the information is believed to be correct and up to date, the reader acknowledges and understands that CMAS does not warrant or represent the accuracy, suitability or applicability of the information provided and assumes no responsibility or liability for the use thereof by any reader. The interpretation, use and application of such information shall be the reader’s sole responsibility. In other words, like anything else you find on the internet, use the information contained here at your own risk and be sure to tailor it to your own situation.

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CMAS Assessments

Assessments of LINC Childminding programs are conducted once a year by CMAS. CMAS works with each LINC Childminding program to review practices and identify any areas that do not meet the standards of the National LINC Childminding Requirements (NLCR).

The CMAS assessment is a transparent, inclusive monitoring and support process to help LINC Childminding facilities meet the NLCR in the areas of:

  • administration
  • facilities
  • activities
  • child health and safety
  • staffing and supervision.

Steps in the Assessment Process

  1. Getting Ready

    • Every January, each Service Provider Organization (SPO) receives a “Welcome Back” letter and package , which includes information on the upcoming yearly assessment. Included in the “Welcome Back” package is a list of support documents that will assist the childminding program in meeting the NLCR. The letter and package is sent to both the LINC Coordinator (or Executive Director) and the Lead Childminder.
    • Shortly after the “Welcome Back” letter and package arrives, the childminding program receives a phone call from the CMAS Assessment Consultant and an assessment visit is booked. The Citizenship and Immigration (CIC) Project Officer responsible for the SPO is invited to attend the assessment visit.
    • Two weeks prior to the assessment visit, a confirmation letter arrives with a list of the required documentation to complete the assessment.

CMAS Support

Do you have questions about working with newcomer families? About childcare issues? About making your facility work for children?

This is how we can help:

  • We provide information, suggestions and hands-on assistance to LINC Childminding programs.
  • As a clearinghouse on issues of health and safety and newcomer settlement, we can serve as a resource for practical information that will help newcomer families settle into a new country and community.
  • We are available to visit facilities to help with everything from fire drills to room design.

    • NOTE: If you are planning a move or renovation, remember to request the CMAS booklet From Selection to Set Up: How to Start a LINC Childminding Program. CMAS can also provide on-site support in planning your new space.

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