Child Care Worker

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Nature of Child Care

• A child care worker is a person who takes care and looks after children when the parents are away.

• A child care is basically a babysitter. • The child care work can do many things with

the children such as art work, play games with them, and read books.

• Child care worker works in schools or in day care centers.

Training and Education

• To work as a child care worker you usually have to have a license for the state you want to work in.

• Some states make sure that the child care worker knows all about safety.

• Also some states want you totake college classes about

being a child care worker.

Employment• If you were to be working as a child car

worker you would be working in either schools, or in day care centers.

Earnings/Jobs• As of May 2008 on average for a yearly

salary a child care worker makes up to $20,500.

• Child care workers who worked in schools made more money then workers who worked in day care centers.

• In 2008, there were 1.3 million child care workers.

Future of the Job• The future of the job is projected to increase

as fast as all occupations between 2008 and 2018.

• The number of jobs for child care workers all depends on the number of government child care centers.

Summary• A child care workers is a worker who looks

after and plays with kids when their parents are not around.

• There is going to be an increase in the job in the upcoming years.

• The workers work in either schools or in day care centers.