Noblenanny News

The group that has offers child care services to Southwest Florida for 35 years will no longer be the central agency in charge for distributing $37 million in financial help to families needing child care effective July 1.As a result, Child Care of Southwest Florida Inc. will lay off workers, though the exact figure of employees that will be laid off is mysterious.

The nonprofit group, which has had the bond for child-care services in Lee, Collier, Glades and Hendry counties since 1972, educated Wednesday that it was not elected by the Early Learning Coalition of Southwest Florida to offer child care services below a three-year agreement. As an agency, Child Care of Southwest Florida, Inc. is support by the Agency for Workforce Innovation Office of Early Learning, which manages the bond and the spreading of the funds.