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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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The CCDF Fraud Toolkit is an evolving resource designed to assist CCDF Lead Agencies in increasing program integrity and accountability and decreasing fraud within their child care programs.

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Collaboration Between CCDF and TANF to Meet the Needs of Low-Income Working Families outlines why collaboration with TANF is important and the beginning steps in collaboration. It also offers examples of how CCDF and TANF can collaborate, including various state initiatives and highlights fiscal considerations for both programs.

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Grantee Internal Controls Self-Assessment Instrument

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.

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Market Rate Survey Series

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.

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State Median Income and Federal Poverty Level Calculation Tool

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.

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Criminal background check resources

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

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Guidance on Estimating and Reporting the Costs of Child Care

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.

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Using Grants and Contracts to Build and Stabilize Supply / Uso de Subvenciones y Contratos para Desarrollar y Estabilizar Prestaciones

Lead Agencies can use direct service grants or contracts to increase the supply of quality child care for underserved or vulnerable populations. This brief provides information on direct service grants and contracts, including:

  • Key Issues and Goals;
  • Top Policies and...
States' Strategies to Reduce Improper Payment Errors in CCDF / Estrategias de los Estados para reducir errores de pagos indebidos en CCDF

Over the past eight years, states have made considerable progress in lowering error rates and reducing improper payments in their child care programs. In their State Improper Payments Reports (ACF-404), states share practices that have helped reduce errors, particularly those that...

Promising Practices for Out-of-School Time Licensing and License-Exempt Systems/Voces desde el Campo: practicas prometedoras para licencias de tiempo fuera de la escuela y sistemas exentos de licencias

Licensing is the foundation of efforts to improve program quality in the out-of-school-time field.  License requirements protect the basic health and safety of participating children and establish the professional development that is necessary for educators working in out-of-school-time...

Wait List vs. Enrollment Freeze

When the demand for child care assistance is greater than available funds, the State may need to manage enrollment in the child care subsidy program. This brief discusses two strategies States may use - creating a wait list of eligible participants, and freezing the eligibility or enrollment...

Wait List Management

Approaches to managing wait lists vary. For example, some Lead Agencies complete comprehensive eligibility determinations prior to placing families onto the waiting list. Others perform abbreviated eligibility reviews, relying primarily on information submitted with the application for...

CCDF Payment Rates - Understanding the 75th Percentile

The CCDBG Act requires Lead Agencies to certify that rates are sufficient to ensure eligible children have equal access to child care services comparable to those in State or local sub-markets provided to children who are not eligible to receive CCDF or other Federal or State child care...

Using Contracts and Grants to Build the Supply of High Quality Child Care: State Strategies and Practices

This paper provides information on state and territory efforts to use contracts and grants with providers, beginning with an overview of States and Territories whose 2016–18 CCDF Plans indicate that they are currently using contracts and grants. Topics addressed include the following:

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Financing and Budgeting for Early Care and Education Facilities Guidebook

Having adequate, and even inspiring facilities for center-based early care and education facilities is a goal for all leaders. Financing and Budgeting for Early Care and Education Facilities provides information about how to budget for and secure funds to purchase and maintain quality...

Top Ten Ways CCDF Can Support Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships

Early Head Start (EHS) and the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) both serve low-income families and their children; however, there are some differences in policy, operations, and funding requirements. EHS-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships will benefit from strategies to bridge these...

Self-Employment in CCDF

The U.S. Department of Labor reports that over 14 million people in the United States are self-employed, representing nearly ten percent of the labor force. Developing eligibility policies to address self-employment is challenging due to the complex business structures and difficulty of...

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