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Access to high-quality child care, particularly for families with low incomes, has always been a challenge. The coronavirus pandemic has made it even more challenging. Alycia Hardy, a policy analyst and the newest addition to CLASP's Child Care and Early Education team, recently published a blog about equitable approaches to elevating parent voices in recovery conversations.
Child care has been meagerly funded in coronavirus relief bills. As a result, many programs have been forced to close and may never reopen, leaving parents and other caregivers with even fewer options. These difficulties will be even more challenging for families harmed by systemic barriers related to race, ethnicity, language access, and disability. States must implement equitable policies to address a variety of needs across communities, particularly for people who have been historically underserved and disproportionately harmed by the coronavirus pandemic.
See Alycia's twitter thread about the blog here.
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