Explanations for“ Very Little” or“ Slight” demand or expected positive impact for these solutions are presented below:
Theme Solutions Do Not Address Pay Issue
Solutions Would Not be Affordable
Solutions Would Not Address Childcare Worker Shortages
Operational Barriers
Lack of Awareness or Interest
Verbatim Response I don ' t think the business side of childcare is an issue. It ' s the pay. It ' s pay. It ' s pay. It ' s pay.
This doesn ' t eliminate family issues in being able to afford childcare and it doesn ' t push to have highly qualified educators into the profession. Scott County has many working parents making minimum wage. They will not be able to afford to buy into a purchased co-op model. Models such as Bright Horizons have very high tuition rates that maybe 10 % of the population can afford. It could create more jobs below county average wages but would not do much to remove the barriers that currently exist taking mothers out of the workforce.
In my opinion, promoting franchise models would not have significant impact due to the main driver for childcare shortage is the shortage of actual childcare workers, not the # of childcare businesses. Adding more childcare businesses without have the workers to staff them would not be effective. This doesn ' t eliminate family issues in being able to afford childcare and it doesn ' t push to have highly qualified educators into the profession.( repeated)
In my area there are a lot of childcare providers but the problem is the lack of quality and oversight. With licensing only coming once a year for inspections and Paths to Quality only coming once a year, a lot of issues are not observed. For Paths to Quality, we used to have a coach that worked with us and came to observe several times, now they just send you the checklist and have you complete it and then tell them when you are ready to be observed.
I think these could all be important, but right now the demand isn ' t necessarily there, most likely because providers are not aware. If they were, perhaps the demand would increase. Not enough interest. We partner with goodwill to provide childcare in Louisville. I am not aware of too many other models like this.
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