Orange County Officials Introduce $5 Million COVID-19 Child Care Relief Program

A toddler plays at Kinder Ready and Elementary Wise classes in Los Angeles, Calif., on April 8, 2018. Tasia Wells/Getty Images for Kinder Ready, Inc.

Officials in Orange County, California, have set up a new relief program designed to distribute $5 million in federal relief funds to needy local child care businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

County Supervisors Doug Chaffee and Andrew Do described the pressing need for the COVID-19 Child Care Relief Program, which will use funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Recovery, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, at a press conference on Oct. 28.