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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take my advice if you are in Maryland.  I run a daycare so this is what we are being told.

Only EPCC approved daycares will be allowed to operate until phase 3.  When EPCC started we were allowed to accept kids up to 13 years old (even if we were not geared toward it). Start calling now about securing a spot.  That may mean paying a holding fee.   Many in home daycares (that's me) are not doing in person tours or interviews so be prepared to have these on video chats.

I have been preaching this since the beginning: daycare spots are significantly reduced and many daycares are closing or already closed.  There will not be enough spots for all of the children who need care.  [/quote]

Not a teacher but I'm fretting so much about this.  The prospect of no available childcare for the foreseeable future is giving me more anxiety than catching the virus.[/quote]

It's a bad situation for us daycares too.  Our families' numbers are counted in the 10 allowable per house (even is someone works outside the home).  That means that my family of 5 takes up half my spots, so I can now only watch 5 kids instead of 8.  That means I lose the income for the 3 kids, so roughly $600 a week, $2400 a month.  That's a lot of income to lose.  From what I understand we will not be allowed to increase our prices to offset some lost income (Since the government is now controlling our businesses since we are EPCC).  Some daycares with larger families are choosing to close because it's not worth it to just watch 3-4 kids, that's not enough income.  They are better off on unemployment.

I say all of that to bring to light the major child care epidemic that we will be facing.  There will be fewer spots so if you have a daycare hold on tight to it.

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I sympathize completely.  Are you open for essential workers now?  It’s not really clear to me what happens June 8 when state funding goes away.  I know of families who are still paying for their regular daycare but using a different daycare right now as they are essential workers. So I guess they’ll be paying twice?? Or have to give up their spot at their regular daycare? WTF.

Also we’ve been paying our daycare all along but keeping the kids at home for now.  They are open for essential workers. I don’t u see stand what happens when regular families start bringing their kids back. The kids who have been attending as part of the essential workers program get kicked out?[/quote]

You asked very good questions. I am fortunate that all of my existing families were essential. I don’t have to worry about these if’s but plenty of people are very concerned.  Funding ends on June 7, so starting June 8 parents are once again responsible for paying for daycare based on the providers tuition rates.

I can speak from what I know other providers are doing. They are also in a huge conundrum about which families to keep, the new essential employee family or their old customers. In your case since you have been paying a holding fee I’m assuming your provider will take you back and essentially kick out the other family. I’m surprised they continued to collect tuition from you if they are not watching your kids (and since they were watching essential families ) but that was very gray language in what we could do for nonessential families versus essential families.

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