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A NATIONAL SURVEY ranks California among the top five states with the least affordable child care. Local officials say Santa Clara County is worse.
This brief explores the benefits of enrollment-based payments for child care providers as one step for broader reform.
Management Bulletin 21-08 Early Learning and Care Division Subject: Guidance Regarding the Extension of Temporary Emergency Childcare Services, Enrolling New Families in Temporary Emergency Childcare, Transition into Ongoing Childcare Services, and Assessment of Family Fees for Essential Workers and At-risk Populations Number: 21-08 Expires: June 30, 2022, unless rescinded sooner Authority: Senate Bill 117 (Chapter 3, Statutes of 2020); Executive Order N-33-20; Executive Order N-45-20; Executive Order N-47-20; Senate Bill 89 (Chapter 2, Statutes of 2020); Executive Order N-66-20; Assemb...
We wanted to know how close that prediction was to coming true almost a year later, so LAist requested the number of permanent and temporary closures, broken down by county, from the agency that licenses child care, the California Department of Social Services. As of Jan. 25, 3,122 California child care providers had reported permanent shutdowns. Child care has been a precarious business in recent years. L.A. County and the state as a whole have consistently lost child care slots since 2014. So far, the number of permanent closures between March of 2020 and January 2021 hasn't exceeded the n...