May 12, 2025
In 2018, a national working group of 20 organizations gathered to discuss the urgent need for child care facilities across the country. The group developed a child care facilities policy framework including a set of principles to guide facility expansion and renovation to support the needs of working parents and the health, safety and development of children and child care professionals.
After seven years, and much progress, this brief updates the original framework, calls attention to the role of facilities in child care supply expansion and critical program safety improvements, and reflects the significant gains that states and localities have amassed in recent years.