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The FY 2001 increase of $817 million for a total of $2 billion will be used to expand the
Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDG) program. This increase will provide
quality, affordable child care as a support for low-income working families, essential both
to parents' continued employment and children's healthy development and learning.
Access to quality, affordable child care is critical to the achievement of self-sufficiency by
welfare clients. Child care subsidies also help the working poor remain self-sufficient.
ACF will continue to promote expansion of child care services as a key element in its
strategy for helping families achieve economic independence. Doing so will involve
working with our partners to increase the supply of child care, to develop measures of, and
supports for, child care quality, and to provide information to help parents make sound
choices about child care.
In addition, partnerships among providers of child care, Head Start, public and private early
childhood education, health. nutrition, mental health and parental employment preparation
are essential to meeting the needs of young children and their families. ACF will continue
to encourage collaboration at the federal, State and individual program levels to this end.
SUMMARY OF FY 1999 PERFORMANCE
Child Care and Development Fund grantees have many efforts underway to address access
to child care for low-income families. As work continues in partnership with States to
improve the data collection efforts, a number of indicators, including informal feedback
from grantees, show that the number of children served by CCDF is increasing. For
example, because some States have reduced the level of parent co-payments required, or
have set lower co-payment amounts for the very lowest income families, they are able to
increase the number of children served. A number of States indicate having raised their
income eligibility standards in an effort to extend child care services to additional families.
Other States have initiated new partnerships with the business community and with other
early childhood service providers to expand the number of programs that offer child care
services that match the hours parents are working or in training. The Child Care Bureau
continues to encourage grantees to work toward making child care more affordable and
accessible for low income families by offering technical assistance to grantees and
information to grantees and the general public about successful initiatives across the
country.
Despite this progress, existing resources are inadequate to meet the need for child care
assistance. On October 19, 1999, the Secretary of Health and Human Services released a
report indicating that nationally, in an average month in 1998, only 1.5 million of the 9.9
million low and moderate-income children eligible for CCDF assistance actually received
help through the program-just 15 percent of children eligible under State criteria. The
gap between eligibility and receipt of services would be greater if States had chosen to
define the eligible population to include all of the low and moderate-income working
families that are potentially eligible under Federal law-85 percent of State median
income-an estimated 14.7 million children would have been eligible for subsidies in
1998, of whom only 10 percent were served.
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