Sentences with phrase «access to child care»

These initial findings suggest that improving child care supply may be part of a larger effort to improve access to child care for working families.

Doing so would ensure that all low - income children have access to child care subsidies and that parents can choose a high - quality provider that meets their needs.

A similar situation existed for child care assistance: Very few postdocs across all the studies received child care subsidies or had access to child care services.

- 24,000 more children up to four years old will have access to child care in 2017 - 18.

Factors such as cost, child care subsidies, work schedules, waiting lists, and many others impact access to child care.

The new tax credit would support access to child care rated as high quality, which would be selected by parents.

Ms. Furstenfeld's expertise is in the areas of increasing access to child care for foster families and relative caregivers, improving the quality and safety in child care, and advocating for fair business and zoning laws for family child care home providers.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

Provide access to child care subsidies for poor and near - poor families and reduce child poverty by 3 percent (cost = $ 5.3 billion).

«For young mothers like her, the ability to seek office hinges on access to child care.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: A lack of access to child care is creating issues for families across Tompkins County.

Critics want to know where Sheryl Sandberg, the Harvard - educated, billionaire COO of Facebook, gets off pressing ordinary women with ordinary educations, ordinary bank accounts, and ordinary access to child care to work harder and seize the reins of their careers.

Cuomo also wants to establish a child care availability task force to review access to child care statewide.

Rep. Brian Higgins, a Buffalo Democrat, announced that the House had approved the Veteran's Access to Child Care Act, which makes permanent a program that started as a pilot program at the Buffalo VA in 2011 and that has since spread to VA facilities nationwide.

All child care staff and any individual who may have unsupervised access to child care children e.g. adults living in the home, volunteers, maintenance staff, the owner, office staff, and regular visitors.

A recent study found that the number of children served by CCDBG in 2012 fell to the lowest level since 1998, and more than 260,000 children have lost access to child care subsidies since 2006.

When programs close their doors, children who attended them lose out on access to high - quality early learning opportunities, families aren't able to work without access to child care, and staff are left looking for jobs.

Since these families also do not have assistance from another parent in the house, the need for affordable and high quality access to child care is imperative to help single parents make ends meet.

The researchers found that, in Massachusetts, families receiving child care subsidies report greater access to child care, more affordable child care, and higher quality child care, than do similar families not receiving subsidies.

These funds will help to restore access to child care for low - income working families that was lost during the last decade, as well as help states boost the quality of infant - toddler care.

As children progress through play groups to enrol in the flexible preschool program and move into the elementary grades, they and their families have continuous access to child care, health screening, special needs interventions and family counselling and referrals to employment, immigration and housing services.

Ms. Hegoda works on increasing access to child care by advocating for fair business and zoning laws for family child care home providers.

The Democratic presidential candidates» proposals to expand access to child care and pre-K programs resonate with Americans.

«We certainly applaud government's efforts on easing the burden of high housing costs and increasing access to child care, but in introducing a payroll tax to offset lost MSP premium revenues this Budget delivers another meaningful blow to small to medium employers, especially in the service and technology sectors,» adds Black.

However, moving may be in the best interest if the move allows a child to attend a better school, provides access to child care or a support system, or would benefit the child in some other way that can be demonstrated in court.

Sue Ellen Christian's Dec. 27 article («Pinched lives caught in new bind,» Page 1) clearly illustrates that if welfare - reform efforts are to succeed, all low - income families must have access to child care they can afford.

They may also work from home and have a flexible work schedule and / or access to child care.

It is full of features which are tailored to single parents, from simple usability to access to child care, and all of this is available for some very cost - effective multi-month packages.

Explores three policies aimed at preventing child maltreatment by identifying resources focusing on reducing poverty, providing temporary assistance to families in need, increasing access to child care, increasing access to high - quality pre-K, and increasing access to State health - care policies that might impact the social determinants of child maltreatment.

They might have to drive an hour or more to reach a health care provider — even longer for access to child care.

Access to child care, particularly high quality child care, remains out of reach for many families.

Quarterly advisory board to workforce training, SPARK implementation and barriers to access to child care.

Likewise, many of the important considerations for location for this population are access to child care, quality schools, and proximity to grocery stores, he adds.