Management Bulletin 21-08
Early Learning and Care Division
Subject: Guidance Regarding the Extension of Temporary Emergency Childcare Services, Enrolling New Families in Temporary Emergency Childcare, Transition into Ongoing Childcare Services, and Assessment of Family Fees for Essential Workers and At-risk Populations
Number: 21-08
Expires: June 30, 2022, unless rescinded sooner
Authority: Senate Bill 117 (Chapter 3, Statutes of 2020); Executive Order N-33-20; Executive Order N-45-20; Executive Order N-47-20; Senate Bill 89 (Chapter 2, Statutes of 2020); Executive Order N-66-20; Assembly Bill 89 (Chapter 7, Statutes of 2020); Senate Bill 98 (Chapter 24, Statutes of 2020), Senate Bill 820 (Chapter 110, Statutes of 2021), Assembly Bill 82 (Chapter 6, Statutes of 2021), Assembly Bill 86 (Chapter 10, Statutes of 2021)
We wanted to know how close that prediction was to coming true almost a year later, so LAist requested the number of permanent and temporary closures, broken down by county, from the agency that licenses child care, the California Department of Social Services.
As of Jan. 25, 3,122 California child care providers had reported permanent shutdowns.
Child care has been a precarious business in recent years. L.A. County and the state as a whole have consistently lost child care slots since 2014. So far, the number of permanent closures between March of 2020 and January 2021 hasn t exceeded the number of closures from the previous year.