As Bernasconi battles her checkbook every month, a bigger fight has been playing out in Sacramento. Child care providers and ...

In California, the number of home child care providers has been on the decline for the last decade, withmore than a quarter of providers closing since 2008. Support for LAist comes from.

There were 51 licensed home-based child care providers in Buncombe in 2005. There are 26 in 2017. The 49 percent drop comes at the same time Buncombe is seeing the closure of child care centers.

But the number of child care providers was already declining before the pandemic – and some 16,000 permanently closed between December 2019 and March 2021, according to Child Care Aware of ...

Area day care centers and in-home child care providers are trying to provide quality child care, but it’s not easy. Kids Depot in Hutchinson and Stay-n-Play in Litchfield have been mainstay c… ...