2009 California Child Care Portfolio
The 2009 California Child Care
Portfolio is a statewide and
county-by-county report documenting child care supply and demand. The report combines data on licensed child care facilities and parents' request for child care gathered by local child care resource and referral agencies to help us understand the need for quality child care in California.
For any questions regarding the report please contact Carlise King, Research Director at carlise@rrnetwork.org or Rowena Quinto, Research Associate at rowena@rrnetwork.org.
The 2009 Child Care Portfolio report indicates that:
- The supply of child care falls far short of demand. Licensed care in California is available for only 27% of children with parents in the labor force. Child care availability varies by county, with licensed care available for 49% of children in San Francisco County with parents in the labor force but is available for only 18% of children in San Joaquin County.(Click here for detailed table). Care is especially difficult to find for infants. While 65% of the overall supply is in centers, only 6% of licensed slots are for children under two years old. (click here for detailed table)
- Over 600,000 children ages birth to 5 years old live in poverty. Statewide the number of children living in poverty has increased 5% between 2006 and 2008. This increase in poverty underscores the importance of maintaining child care subsidies to serve low-income families, including publicly funded centers which represent about a third of licensed center-based programs.
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- Parents need full-time care. Eighty-eight percent of child care requests to R&Rs for children birth to five years are for full-time care.(Click here for detailed table) Seventy-five percent of parents are requesting care because they are working. (Click here for detailed table)
- Parents lack care options during non-traditional hours. Statewide, nine percent of parents request care during the evening or on weekends, however only one to two percent of licensed centers offer this type of care. While family child care homes (27%) are more likely to offer care during non-traditional hours, they only represent about one-third of the overall supply.
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- California's child care workforce is linguistically diverse. Fifty-four percent of licensed child care centers and thirty-eight percent of licensed family child care homes have Spanish-speaking staff compared to thirty-five percent of the population. (Click here for detailed table)
THE 2009 CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE PORTFOLIO includes:
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Please use the following citation when referencing the 2009 Child Care Portfolio:
California Child Care Resource & Referral Network (2009). 2009 Child Care Portfolio. Retrieved (insert date), http: http://www.rrnetwork.org/our-research/2009-portfolio.html
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