Families are desperate for child care, but providers face a “roller coaster” trying to survive:
in response to the pandemic, more than a quarter of licensed child care operations in Texas temporarily closed.the order for all child care services about a month later, more service providers continued to close temporarily, with the number of operations providing care reaching a pandemic low in May 2020.
Montoya closed her day care temporarily for two weeks at the beginning of the pandemic. Once she reopened, she said she experienced a “roller coaster” in trying to keep her business afloat. At times, she said, she was caring for only two or three children. The shortage of day care openings forced many parents to search for alternatives such as nannying or babysitting services. Michelle LaRowe, executive director of nanny referral agencyin Houston, said that during the peak of the omicron surge in January, she saw a record number of parents looking for a nanny and a record shortage of nannies.
Because working in someone’s home can bring a risk of COVID-19 exposure — and because many parents don’t know how long they’ll need child care help as employers and schools change COVID policies — many nannies have opted for gig economy jobs like driving for Uber, she said. Although before- and after-school programs started to reopen at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year, 16% of them remained closed at the end of the school year. As of January, virtually all licensed programs have reopened, but Texas has nearly 100 fewer programs than it did before the pandemic.
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