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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's really bad. I'm a parent and stunned by posts on DCUM complaining that providers are "giving themselves a raise" with reduced service. They are operating on less money and with more restrictions. Nobody should be surprised when they close. We needed more public funding for child care before the pandemic, there was already a shortage, and it's just getting worse.

https://www.naeyc.org/pandemic-surveys
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The essential yet chronically undervalued child care sector has sacrificed and struggled to serve children and families since the start of the COVID pandemic. NAEYC’s newest survey, completed between November 13–29, 2020, by more than 6,000 respondents working in child care centers and family child care homes shows that the crisis facing child care is as consistent and devastating today as it was in March and in July. With 56% of child care centers saying they are losing money every day that they remain open, programs are confronting an unsustainable reality, even as they are taking desperate measures - putting supplies on credit cards, drawing down personal savings, and laying off staff - to remain viable for the children and families they serve. Yet despite the steps they are taking to save themselves, the math on their bottom line does not work, and federal relief is needed to stabilize and support this essential sector. [/quote][/quote]

I agree, but I think parents are starting to get stressed.  A lot of people are still teleworking, but what happens when folks start getting called back and daycare hours are still substantially reduced?  I work at an agency that has been fairly cognizant of struggles that families are facing, so I hope to have telework options into the foreseeable future, but there are many employers who could not give a sh-t that you no longer gave full childcare coverage.

[b]What happened to all the aid for childcare in the last relief package- is any of it reaching providers[/b]?[/quote]

I work in daycare and we have not seen a penny of relief money. Or there are grants that are only targeted at low income ZIP Codes so I think someone in a non low income zip won’t see any of that money.  Instead of writing a check out to every licensed provider they request that we file pages and pages for grant applications to see if we are deemed worthy of getting any of the relief money. It’s a complete joke.

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That's crazy- where is all the $$ going?  Is anyone tracking it?[/quote]

I don’t think we, daycare providers, will ever know where all of the money went. I just know that a large chunk of people who do need relief money won’t be getting it because we don’t live in a low income ZIP Code.

We are already heavily regulated and having more government involvement in our business is something that A very large chunk of childcare businesses do not want. And so getting relief money is tied to being part of more government programs is unappealing. As it is our voices are not heard with our licensing bodies, we have no say in anything, we are under valued by parents, we are under valued by society (it’s disheartening to read dcum) and so on top of all that having less of a say within our own businesses is not something that will go over well if the government is going to step in. It doesn’t take a genius to know that government money comes with government strings and red tape.

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