WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (TNSLrpt) -- A report from the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) has shed light on the growing importance of home-based child care (HBCC) networks, which are providing crucial support to providers across the country. Titled 'Research on Home-Based Child Care Networks,' and authored by Julianna Carlson and Meg Bredeson, the document, OPRE Report #2025-064, was issued in June 2025 and indicates that these networks are a strategy to help sustain providers' bus  more