The state child care advisory council shall do all of the following:
1. Consult with and make recommendations to the department concerning policy issues relating to child care.
2. Advise the department concerning services relating to child care, including but not limited to any of the following:
a. Resource and referral services.
b. Provider training.
c. Quality improvement.
d. Public-private partnerships.
e. Standards review and development.
3. Assist the department in developing an implementation plan to provide seamless service to recipients of public assistance which includes child care services. For the purposes of this subsection, "seamless service" means coordination, where possible, of the federal and state requirements which apply to child care.
4. Advise and provide technical services to the director of the department of education or the director's designee, upon request, relating to prekindergarten, kindergarten, and before and after school programming and facilities.
[C75, § 237A.12; C77, 79, 81, § 237A.22]
89 Acts, ch 206, § 4; 92 Acts, ch 1083, § 4; 99 Acts, ch 192, §20
Referred to in § 237A.1
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