NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WKBW) — For parents throughout Niagara County, childcare isn’t just a service; it’s the difference between staying employed and falling behind.
Inside Celebrity Kids Daycare in Niagara Falls, owner Veronica Griggs moves easily between cribs and play mats, comforting babies and calling children by name. She’s spent more than three decades caring for the community’s youngest residents and now fears families may be forced out of the system altogether.
Griggs says about 90% of the families she serves rely on childcare subsidies, and the county’s newly implemented waitlist could be devastating for parents and providers…