Of additional interest..

WA State Data Reports and reports by county

Licensed Child Care in WA State: 2004 - A report by the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS)

Early Care and Education Coalition

Washington State Department of Early Learning

Thrive By Five

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Facts, Stats & Trends

Child Care Resources tracks current trends and issues affecting the King County Child Care community. With this knowledge we offer community members information that is up to date and focused on important child care issues.

The following are Reports of Interest (requires Acrobat).

Washington State 2008 Child Care Survey

A report from the Washington State  Department of Early Learning

 Read the report (PDF)

Child Care in King County: Child Care Resource and Referral in King County 2008

A report by The Washington State Child Care Resource & Referral Network. Child Care Resources (CCR) hosts the child care resource and referral (R&R) program serving King County.  Read the report (PDF)

Child Care in Washington State: Key Child Care Trends in 2008

A report by The Washington State Child Care Resource & Referral Network. The Network is charged with helping parents find child care; educating parents, providers and the community about what quality child care looks like;  strengthening the child care system at all levels; and collecting data about child care supply and demand in Washington State. Read the report (PDF)

State of Child Care 2002

For this 2002 report, we were fortunate in having U.S Census 2000 data, Child Care Resources data, and information from a number of local and statewide surveys and studies. According to a recent survey conducted by Public Health – Seattle and King County approximately 48 percent of preschool-aged children 0-5 and 43 percent of schoolaged children 6-12 are in regular child care in King County. From this we can estimate that there are approximately 55,200 preschool-aged children and 71,800 school-aged children regularly in child care in King County. Of these 127,000 children, about 67,500 are served primarily in a child care center, family child care home, or other center-based setting such as a Head Start program, preschool or before/after school program. Read the report (PDF)

Child Care Then and Now, Child Care In King County: 1999-2000

To celebrate its first decade, Child Care Resources thought that it would be valuable to analyze the changes that have taken place in child care in King County since CCR’s inception. To determine the extent to which child care accessibility, affordability, and quality changed during the period 1990-2000, we reviewed past and current data from CCR and other sources, and interviewed a number of experts in the field of child care in King County. Many experts in the child care field believe that only a revolutionary approach to financing child care will ease the burden on working families while ensuring that child care providers have sufficient income to pay for high quality care. Read the report (PDF)

Child Care in King County: Annual Report 1999

The quality of child care is of increasing national concern. National studies have shown that the millions of children in child care centers and family child care homes are receiving mediocre care. As of 1999 there are currently about 50,000 children in licensed care in King County. However, a conservative estimate of potential demand for licensed child care is 83,000 children. The greatest gap between supply and demand of care seems to be school age care. Read the report (PDF)

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