Family Day Home and Agency Funding and Support: Questions and Options
Family Day Home and Agency Funding and Support: Key Questions and Options highlights particular concerns with the financial sustainability of family day homes during and after the COVID crisis. The current situation has implications for whether family day homes will be able to survive financially and whether the ones that survive will be able to provide affordable, high-quality, and accessible care for young children and their families. We have outlined some of the problems. As is the case for child care centres, the financial burdens fall on the operator, which in turn will likely lead to increased costs (working against affordability), cutting corners (which will work against quality), and/or closures (which will work against accessibility). In the brief we suggest some options, such as designating family day homes as essential services, that could be pursued and that would help family day homes to thrive so that they can provide affordable, high-quality, and accessible care now and in the future.
