Are there other resources for children who have parents that work a lot?

About 14 million children are on their own after school from 3-6pm. Only one in ten K-12 grade children and youth participate in after-school programs. There are after school programs available at most schools to help children with homework and keep them entertained until parents can pick them up. After school programs are very expensive and millions of children cannot be enrolled in after school programs for financial reasons. Some school do not even offer after school programs at all.

• Of the estimated 49,700 public elementary schools in the nation, 56 percent reported that one or more after-school programs were physically located at the school in 2008 (table 1). Forty-six percent of all public elementary schools reported a fee-based stand-alone day care program, 43percent reported one or more stand-alone academic instruction/tutoring programs, and 10 percent reported a 21st Century Community Learning Center.

• Among public elementary schools with fee-based stand-alone day care that was operated by the school or district, 38 percent indicated that cost to parents hindered student participation in the program to a moderate or large extent, 23 percent reported that the lack of/inadequate transportation hindered student participation to a moderate or large extent, and 21 percent indicated that insufficient slots hindered student participation to a moderate or large extent (derived from table10). Thirteen percent of the schools with 21st CCLCs reported that the lack of/inadequate transportation hindered student participation in the program to a moderate or large extent, and 29percent indicated that insufficient slots hindered student participation in the program to a moderate or large extent.

-Stats from IES National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009043.pdf