Child care in boston: Child Care | Boston.gov

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Last updated: 6/5/23

Types of Child Care

Center-Based Programs

Centers serve children full or part-time in groups or classrooms from birth to five years old.

Infants through five years old whose families receive public assistance, children with a disability, and low-income families can apply online to Early Head Start/Head Start.

Family Child Care (FCC)

Family child care is delivered in a provider’s home. Children in a FCC’s home may range in age from infant through school age. Programs may serve between a maximum of six or 10 children (with an additional assistant). The current license for all these programs will be posted in a prominent location, so look for the license.

Kindergarten and Pre-K

There are several options to get our youngest learners off to a successful start.

How to Choose Child Care

Guide On How To Choose Child Care

It’s important to choose the right child care program that is compatible with your family’s philosophies, and schedule, and should provide a safe environment that is fun, educational, and nurturing.

Find Child care

Are you looking for local childcare in Boston? Use this map of family childcare providers and centers to help find someone in your neighborhood.

Child Care Financial Assistance

Vouchers help families pay for child care. Payments are made directly to the child-care provider. To qualify, parent income must be below a certain percentage of the federal poverty level based on family size. Please email cccb@bostonabcd. org or call 617.542.5437 for more information.

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Report: Boston’s child care capacity remains below pre-pandemic levels

May 03, 2023

Carrie Jung

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While the height of the COVID-19 pandemic might be a few years behind us, Massachusetts’ child care industry is still struggling to recover.

According to a new report out Wednesday, much of the industry’s struggles can be linked to a lingering early educator shortage. Statewide, there were 5,000 fewer early-childhood educators in 2021 than in 2019. And as of spring 2022, 35% of center-based child care programs reported being unable to operate at full capacity.

The city of Boston alone lost about 120 licensed early education providers since 2019. Three-quarters of these providers were family-based centers, where people provide care for a small number of children in their homes.

“The loss of family child care programs is particularly concerning from an equity perspective,” said the report from The Boston Opportunity Agenda — a public-private partnership. The report was co-sponsored by the Boston’s Office of Early Childhood and multiple philanthropies. Authors highlighted that family-based care is often relied upon by low-income families, parents with non-traditional work hours and families of color.

Parents with children under age two are having the hardest time finding an available seat at a licensed child care center. Only 21% of the city’s child care slots were available to kids under two.

“A bright spot is that [Boston’s] universal pre-kindergarten program is really helping to lead the way in the expansion of early education and care and raising the quality,” said Elizabeth Walczak, interim executive director of the Boston Opportunity Agenda.

However, those seats are only for kids ages 3 and up.

The number of open child care seat for kids under two is low. Availability also varies by neighborhood: Dorchester, Mattapan, Roslindale and East Boston had lower capacity for young kids than the citywide average.

The report also highlighted the increased costs of child care. Between 2018 and 2021, the average tuition for infant care in Boston increased by about $1,300 to $21,269. The tuition hike for toddler care was even steeper, increasing by about $5,600 to reach $19,402 in the same time period.

“Infant care in Massachusetts costs nearly 67 percent more than in-state college tuition and 31 percent more than average rent,” the report states. “Even if all Boston families could find formal early education and care near their homes, clearly many of them would not be able to afford it.”

The report offers several policy recommendations, many of which rely on increased state funding. The authors advocate continuing the state’s Commonwealth Cares for Children, or C3, grants. That money was originally intended to be emergency funding to help providers weather the financial insecurity of the pandemic, but the funding stream has since been extended to cover this year and potentially next year as well.

More than 98% of child care providers in Boston have received money through this program.

The report also recommends the state increase the reimbursement rate for child care subsidies to reflect the current cost of care.

Additional recommendations include continued city investment in training new early childhood educators and formulation of a city-wide definition of “high quality child care.”

Members of Boston Opportunity Agenda add that while the city’s child care industry still faces significant issues, they’re encouraged by all of the political energy around expanding access.

“There is this widespread recognition of how essential child care is for families and the economy here,” said Walczak. “The pandemic really shined a light on something that was already a challenge.”

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