Nationally, home-based child care, which includes regulated family child care (FCC), is the most common type of non-parental child care for children under the age of five in the U.S. However, the number of regulated FCC providers has declined steadily since 2008, including the number of FCC providers receiving Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds to care for children receiving child care subsidies.[i],[ii] This mixed methods study examined the decline of regulated FCC providers in the State of Maryland. The study aimed to address the following research questions:
[1] Maryland refers to child care subsidies, funded through the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), as child care scholarships.
Banghart, P., Solomon, B., Maxfield, E., Kelley, S., Madill, R., Halle, T., Amadon, S. (2024). The decline of family child care in Maryland. Child Trends. https://doi.org/10.56417/330u4274e
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