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Using CCDF and TANF to Support Quality Out-of-School Time Care

Several federal grant programs play a significant role in supporting the costs of child care for low-income families, including care for school-age children before and after school and during the summer. The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program is the largest federal funding source for...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Stable Financial Assistance to Families
Building Capacity to Support School-Age Children in Home-Based Child Care

Home-based child care (HBCC) has always been an important part of the child care supply for families of school-age children. HBCC is often a more flexible and affordable type of care, is more available in rural areas, and can support working parents with nontraditional hours. HBCC is used to...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Quality Improvement
Planning Your Market Rate Survey

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Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Market Rate Surveys, Payment Practices, Setting Payment Rates, Determining Equal Access
Designing and Conducting Your Market Rate Survey

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Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Market Rate Surveys, Payment Practices, Setting Payment Rates, Determining Equal Access
Analyzing Your Market Rate Survey Data

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Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Market Rate Surveys, Payment Practices, Setting Payment Rates, Determining Equal Access
Market Rate Survey Series

The National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability (NCSIA) is developing a series of briefs to address topics related to market rate surveys. Some of the topics discussed in this series will include: planning a market rate survey, data sources, designing and conducting the survey,...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Market Rate Surveys
Addressing the Decreasing Number of Family Child Care Providers in the United States

Action is needed to ensure that family child care remains a strong, healthy component of the early childhood education system. This brief examines the reasons family child care homes close and offers information...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Payment Practices, Quality Improvement, Cost of Quality for Providers, Program Quality Standards, Family Child Care, Outreach and Consumer Education, Provider and Quality Information
Using Market Rate Survey and Other Data Sources to Set Subsidy Payment Rates

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Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Market Rate Surveys, Payment Practices, Setting Payment Rates, Determining Equal Access
Affordable Co-payments

This brief provides a summary of family co-payment requirements for Lead Agencies included in the CCDF Rule. It outlines mandates as well as areas of flexibility in co-payment policies and sliding fee scale structures.
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), ARP Act Supplemental Funding, Equal Access to Child Care, Setting Payment Rates
Preparing to Use Administrative Data in Your Market Rate Survey

This resource offers strategies for Lead Agencies to strengthen the quality of their existing administrative data so that it can be used instead of surveying providers on market rates.
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic Equal Access to Child Care, Assessing Market Rates and Child Care Costs, Market Rate Surveys