Kentucky Child Care Gap Assessment

There is broad bipartisan support for child care at all levels of government, but there is little known about exactly how much care is needed.

This approach will focus on the potential need for child care at a local level, relative to the availability of care, and provide comprehensive, comparative data across the country.

This gap analysis will:

• Give policymakers and stakeholders a baseline from which to devise strategies to strengthen quality of and access to child care.

• Give policymakers a critical tool for holding federal, state, and local leaders accountable for improving access to child care.

• Serve as an evidence base that will allow federal, state, and local leaders across the country to use data rather than anecdotes to evaluate the need for care.