ACF Family Room Blog: Improving Access to Child Care for Working Families

This Administration for Children and Families blogpost, authored by the ACF Assistant Secretary, highlights a listening tour that provided the public an opportunity to discuss the challenge of improving access and increasing the affordability of child care. Represented at the listening tour were parents, employers, teachers, child care providers, state and local administration officials, and charities. Findings and feedback from these roundtable discussions will inform program and policy development, research and technical assistance, and proposed legislation to expand affordable child care. The blogpost also notes that a Request for Information has been posted in the Federal Register so that agency officials can obtain additional information beyond the roundtables.