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Military leaders say childcare hours and staff shifted as services lean on community partners
Summary
Panelists told the House Armed Services subcommittee that recent hiring freezes and personnel moves have forced child and youth programs to reassign staff, reduce some hours and strengthen relationships with community childcare providers and family childcare (FCC) networks to preserve availability for military families.
Military leaders told a House Armed Services subcommittee they have shifted child and youth staffing and grown partnerships with community providers to limit how families are affected by recent personnel changes.
The changes stem from a hiring freeze and an early round of force reductions in some units, which “had to shift some of our staffing in our child and youth programs, into CDCs, just to make sure that the CDCs are covered,” said General Miller, who answered lawmakers’ questions on childcare during the hearing. He said leaders are trying to “have the least impact to the families” and that availability remains.
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