New childcare facility opening in Campbell County ‘daycare desert’
School leaders say closest daycare was 30 miles away
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CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. – For many Brookneal parents, childcare can be hard to find because the area is considered a “daycare desert.”
“One of the parents I spoke to would get up at 4 a.m. and would drive all the way to the other side of Lynchburg to drop their children off, to come back here to be at work by 6 a.m.” said Nicole Crews, an early childhood education teacher.
That’s because, according to Crews, the closest childcare facility is about 30 miles away.