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Final Child Care Needs Assessment – 2015 and 2025 City of Redwood City October 19, 2016 Page 10 of 15 Prepared by Brion Economics, Inc. Final Report For infants, a demand factor of 37% is applied. This is the demand factor recommended by the California Child Care Coordinators Association for needs assessments and agreed upon by the data committee for this project. For preschool children, demand factors typically vary between 75% and 100% of children with working parents. For two-year-olds, a 75% licensed care demand factor is applied after LFPRs are applied. For three- and four-year-olds, an 80% licensed care demand factor is applied, meaning that 80% of all three- and four-year-olds (not adjusted with LFPRs) in the City require a licensed child care space. For school age children, it is estimated that 60% of children ages 5 to 12 with working parents demand some type of licensed or license-exempt after school care, including after school programs at school sites, ASES programs, private school after care, and other similar programs. Once demand is calculated, the percent distribution of total demand for spaces by age group is presented as well as the percent of total children requiring licensed care. Current child care demand from employees that work in Redwood City but reside outside of the county is included in Table 4, based on the employment numbers calculated in Table 2. It is estimated that there are approximately 800 children of employees who work in the City that require some form of licensed child care. Of this total, approximately 300 are estimated to be infants and 500 are estimated to be preschool age. School age children are expected to generate demand near their place of residence and are not included in employee demand factors for this study. Taking the total demand from residents and employees, demand by age group is then calculated. There is demand for almost 1,000 infant spaces, 3,100 preschool spaces, and 3,700 school age spaces, totaling 7,800 across all age groups. Table 4 summarizes current licensed and legally license-exempt 4 child care supply by age group for infants, preschool, and school age children in Redwood City as of June 2015 (with some updates with 2016 data), based on information provided by the Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County (4Cs) and Child Care Licensing. Supply data includes the number of providers by type (either Family Child Care Homes or Licensed Centers), and breaks down the number of spaces by age group, i.e., either Infants, Preschool, or School Age. Total child care supply and the distribution of spaces by age group is also calculated.5 School age care includes after school care on school sites, ACES programs, and other license-exempt care. 4 Legally license-exempt programs include City Park & Recreation programs, Co-operative/Parent Participation programs, school district programs, and federal migrant programs. 5 One center with an Atherton address and five centers with Menlo Park addresses are included in the Redwood City supply count because they are within the school district attendance area and city’s Sphere of Influence. 8.C. - Page 14