Addressing the Decreasing Number of Family Child Care Providers in the United States
Action is needed to ensure that family child care remains a strong, healthy component of the early childhood education system. This brief examines the reasons family child care homes close and offers information that your state, territory, or tribe can use to solve this problem.
The paper was revised in March 2020 to include final data about the number of licensed child care facilities and licensed capacity from the 2017 Child Care Licensing Study.
Publication Date
Resource Type
Brief
Topic/Subtopic
Equal Access to Child Care
Payment Practices
Quality Improvement
Cost of Quality for Providers
Program Quality Standards
Family Child Care
Outreach and Consumer Education
Provider and Quality Information
Archive Status
Unarchived