A York child care center is set to close on May 19 after a judge upheld the state’s decision to revoke its license, and families are scrambling for somewhere to send their kids. The North Pershing Avenue location of Lots of Love Daycare, one of six centers run by owner Shannan Mosley, enrolled about 80 children, she said. “I hurt for my staff. I hurt for my parents. I hurt for my kids the most,” Mosley said.
The ruling, which keeps the North Pershing site on track to shut down May 19, followed an administrative review and an unsuccessful appeal, according to FOX43. The outlet reports that Mosley has spent 17 years in child care and runs centers across Pennsylvania and Maryland, and that she sold the Pershing building to another provider as the program winds down. She estimated that about 20 children could move to other Lots of Love locations, while the rest will need entirely new placements.
How inspections are supposed to work
Pennsylvania's Department of Human Services uses a Certification Inspection Instrument (CII) to standardize how certification inspections are carried out and to document the results, according to the Department of Human Services. The CII is designed to keep enforcement consistent across the state and to improve transparency around inspection findings. DHS press secretary Brandon Cwalina said the department “takes the safety of all individuals in licensed child care facilities seriously.”
Closures pile onto a stretched system
The shutdown lands in a child care system that is already strained for staff and open slots. A 2026 analysis from the Center for American Progress finds that millions of young children live in licensed child care deserts, while policy research warns that Pennsylvania has lost hundreds of programs since the pandemic, tightening capacity and stretching families. The Century Foundation documents state-level program losses and the end of stabilization funding that once kept many small providers afloat.
For parents in York the fallout is immediate. Mosley says the shutdown will force families to search for scarce alternatives, and FOX43 reports the York JCC's Gan Rimon campus is separately appealing its own license revocation. Families and staff are now waiting to see whether any appeals or administrative reviews will change the outcome for either site.
Parents hunting for replacements can use the state's online provider search and local Early Learning Resource Centers to review certified programs, inspection histories and contact information, according to Pennsylvania's Office of Child Development and Early Learning. Mosley said she is working to place children and staff where possible while the legal process plays out.
