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Within the early care and education system, licensing requirements apply to those caring for children from birth to school age. Licensing helps prevent various forms of harm to children, including risks from the following: injuries and the spread of disease; fire and other building safety hazards;…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Informing Child Care Consumers
- Processes for Licensing Child Care
- Licensing Administration
- Consumer Information and Websites
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance's 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. These professional development…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Professional Development
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Licensing Administration
- Monitoring and Enforcement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
Consumer Education
Consumer education helps families access the information needed to make informed child care choices. Well-crafted consumer education is strengths based and culturally and linguistically responsive to the needs of communities. When done well, consumer education can reach large…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic:
- Family Engagement and Consumer Education
- Social-Emotional/Behavioral/Mental Health
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Licensing Administration
- Family Child Care
Group: Child Care State Capacity Building Center
Las normas de concesión de licencias suelen establecerse según las necesidades de desarrollo de los niños muy pequeños, pero casi la mitad (45%) de todos los niños atendidos por medio de los subsidios del Fondo de Cuidado y Desarrollo Infantil (CCDF) son de edad escolar y tienen de 5 a 12 años. Por…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic:
- Professional Development
- Program Integrity and Accountability
- Promoting Children's Development
- Afterschool and Summer Enrichment/Out-of-School Time
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Licensing Administration
- Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
This brief highlights strategies that licensing agency staff—as well as external entities who support family child care (FCC) providers—can use to address provider-reported challenges. The brief also presents examples of how states have implemented some of these strategies. Implementing responsive…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic:
- Professional Development
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Licensing Administration
- Licensing Policies/Structure of Regulatory Agencies
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
Licensing regulations are often framed around the developmental needs of very young children, but nearly half (45 percent) of all children served through Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) subsidies are school-age—ages 5 through 12. When school-age programs are able to attain licensure, they…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic:
- Professional Development
- Program Integrity and Accountability
- Promoting Children's Development
- Afterschool and Summer Enrichment/Out-of-School Time
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Licensing Administration
- Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance (NCECQA) Licensing Professional Development Series is designed exclusively for state and territory licensing staff to hear from guest speakers who are subject matter experts on key topics. This second session, in a series of three, was held…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic:
- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Management Practices
- Professional Development
- Licensing Administration
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
Given the prominent role of the child care licensing system, it is important to determine how the licensing system can be more equitable on behalf of children and families through its work with child care providers. It is also important to determine how licensing can partner with providers to…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic:
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Licensing Administration
- Licensing Policies/Structure of Regulatory Agencies
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
This session explores the development of policies and procedures and the policies and procedures checklist template, and provides sample policies and procedures. Strategies for developing policies and procedures for different audiences including staff, families, and providers, are also discussed.
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic:
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Health and Safety Requirements and Standards
- Licensing Administration
- Licensing Policies/Structure of Regulatory Agencies
Group: Not Applicable
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.
Resource Type: Tool
Topic/Subtopic:
- Protecting Children's Health and Safety
- Emergency Preparedness
- Health and Safety Requirements and Standards
- Licensing Administration
- Monitoring and Enforcement
- Supporting Health and Wellness
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance