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The National Database of Child Care Licensing Regulations is a tool for finding and searching state child care licensing regulations and licensing agency contact information. It also includes links to other state and national early childhood program standards.
National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance (NCECQA) supports state and community leaders and their partners in the planning and implementation of rigorous approaches to quality in all early care and education settings for children from birth to school age. The Center's expert staff use collaborative approaches to do the following:
- Advance strong health and safety standards and licensing regulations that align with the Child Care and Development Fund and Head Start Performance Standards.
- Support the development and enhancement of state quality initiatives, including quality rating and improvement systems.
- Enhance quality assurance systems through the use of technology, data analysis, and research that promote continuous quality improvement, efficiency, and innovation.
Contact Us
Send your questions and requests to:
- QualityAssuranceCenter@ecetta.info
- 877-296-2250 (toll free)
Highlighted Tools and Resources:
The Program Standards Crosswalk is a tool designed to help States that are developing and aligning program standards for licensing, quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS), and/or prekindergarten programs, to search and compare the content of several sets of national standards.
The QRIS Resource Guide provides guidance for States as they explore key issues and consider decision points during the planning and implementation of a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS).
The Provider Cost of Quality Calculator is a tool that calculates the cost of care by levels of quality based on site-level provider data.
The Licensing Professional Development Series is designed exclusively for state, territory, and Tribal licensing staff to hear from guest speakers who are subject matter experts on key topics.
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This webinar was held on September 29, 2022. The Office of Child Care’s National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance welcomed Dr. Rachel Moon, an American Academy of Pediatrics...
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance hosted this national webinar on September 20, 2022, to learn about inclusion research, laws, policies, and practices as well as...
This brief explores the importance of inclusion for young children with disabilities and the relationship between inclusion and quality in early childhood education. The brief includes a table with state examples of inclusion-related indicators in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems, and a...
This brief highlights strategies that licensing agency staff—as well as external...
This brief describes licensing requirements for child care centers in 2020 and identifies trends from previous years of data collection. The data in this brief were collected from state child care licensing regulations by the National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance from regulations...
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance has conducted a large-scale research study of child care licensing provider and facility requirements every three years since 2005. The current study looks at licensing requirements for child care centers, family child care homes, and...
