National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability

The National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability (SIAC) provides technical assistance to Child Care and Development Fund programs in developing child care subsidy systems that are child-focused, family-friendly, and fair to providers. SIAC works with grantees to help them reach goals related to subsidy eligibility, integrating quality and subsidy, strengthening program integrity, payment rules, rate setting, and other policies and practices that support providing high-quality care to more children from low-income families.

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Highlighted Tools and Resources:

The Grantee Internal Controls Self-Assessment Instrument assists grantees in assessing how well their policies and procedures meet CCDF's regulatory requirements in the areas of program integrity and financial accountability.

The Market Rate Survey Series consists of briefs addressing topics to include: planning a market rate survey, data sources, designing and conducting the survey, analyzing the results, and reporting and using results.

The State Median Income and Federal Poverty Level Calculation Tool assists states and territories with calculating annual and monthly SMI estimates and FPL levels for determining income eligibility and family copayments for their child care subsidy programs.

Criminal background check resources are available that break down the requirements into easier to understand language.

Guidance on Estimating and Reporting the Costs of Child Care aims to support Lead Agencies and their partners as they create cost estimates, prepare detailed reports, and use cost estimates to inform their rate setting.

Financing and Budgeting for Early Care and Education Facilities provides information about how to budget for and secure funds to purchase and maintain quality facilities. State leaders will find this guidebook a helpful resource to pass along to child care programs in their States. This guide supports leaders in being innovative in acquiring unique sources of funds to make improvements to existing facilities or to build new ones.

Promoting Partnerships in Tribal Programs highlights areas in which CCDF and Head Start and Early Head Start policies closely align and can support partnerships in tribal communities. It reflects changes that are required under the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014 and new regulations specific to Tribal Lead Agencies receiving medium and large CCDF allocations (those receiving $250,000 or more) and the requirements outlined in the Head Start Program Performance Standards.

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Grantee Internal Controls Self-Assessment Instrument

The Grantee Internal Controls Self-Assessment Instrument (Instrument) is designed to assist grantees in assessing how well their policies and procedures meet the Child Care and Development Fund's (CCDF) regulatory requirements in the areas of program integrity and financial accountability....

Aligning Out-of-School Time Services for Children Experiencing Homelessness

The National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (NCASE) is pleased to share a practice brief on Aligning Out-of-School Time Services for Children Experiencing Homelessness. This brief is the fifth in a periodic series published by NCASE to build awareness of promising practices in the...

Tribal Background Check Requirement Highlights

This resource highlights key requirements of the CCDF criminal background check requirements for tribes.

Topics include:

Applicability of rules
Individuals subject to background checks
Required national and state-based background checks

CCDF Criminal Background Implementation Planning Checklist

The CCDBG Act of 2014 requires states and territories to have in effect requirements, policies, and procedures to conduct criminal background checks for all child care staff members (including prospective staff members) of all child care programs that are 1) licensed, regulated, or registered...

NEW RESOURCE: Partnering with Parents to Access and Maintain Subsidy in Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships / Asociación con los padres para acceder y conservar los subsidios en las Asociaciones entre Early Head Start y Cuidado Infantil

Child care subsidies are a critical component of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships (EHS-CC Partnerships.) Programs must ensure that at least 25 percent of enrolled families use subsidies. Assisting families to access and maintain subsidies is the focus of this brief. It includes...

Using Live Scan Fingerprinting to Meet CCDF Criminal Background Check Requirements

This brief is part of an ongoing effort with the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Child Care (OCC) to provide guidance to the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies concerning the implementation of criminal background check requirements. It discusses the benefits...

Considerations for the Implementation of Infant/Toddler Contracted Slots

This resource was presented as part of the Staff Enrichment Sessions at STAM 2018.

Promising Approaches for In-State Criminal Background Check CCDF Compliance

This resource was presented as part of the implementation sessions at STAM 2018.

Weighing the Tradeoffs in Eligibility Policy

This resource was presented as part of the policy development sessions at STAM 2018.

CCDF Error Rate Fact Sheets

These fact sheets summarize the error rate findings for each year. They include information about the national error rates, causes of improper payment errors, and states' strategies to reduce errors.

The most recent fact sheet includes the findings from the 2018 federal fiscal year....

CCTAN - The Child Care Technical Assistance Network, a service of the Office of Child Care

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