Report to the 72nd Legislature / Texas Child Care Development Board.
Abstract
Quality, affordable child care is important to parents in both the public and
private sectors. However, finding good and convenient child care can be very
difficult. Across the country, public and private sector employers have developed
a wide range of services to assist parents in obtaining child care. In 1982, 95
percent of the corporations offering child care programs reported measurable
benefits to their companies from these programs, including reduced turnover,
reduced absenteeism and increases in productivity, job performance and morale.
Employer-sponsored child care has a positive effect on recruitment of new
employees and improves employee attitudes toward the employer. Assisting
working parents also enhances corporate image and community relations.' As
information concerning the need for and benefits of employer-sponsored child
care have increased, assuring the availability of child care for children of state
employees has become an issue of active interest to state elected officials.