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Child-care providers urge Senate to restore peer-review appeal process and pass SB177 to shore up workforce
Summary
Multiple childcare owners and CEO Project representatives asked the Senate Finance Committee to restore a peer-review appeals process and consider Senate Bill 177 (free childcare for child-care workers) as part of HB 96 to address staffing shortages and permit providers to keep businesses open following licensing disputes.
Several early-childhood providers and a representative of the CEO Project testified that Senate Bill 177 and restoration of a peer-review appeal process are necessary to stabilize Ohio’s childcare workforce and protect small providers from closure due to licensing disputes. Speakers said staff recruitment and retention are hindered because many childcare workers cannot afford care for their own children, and that the proposed…
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