Not exact matches
Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare (DHS)
regulates child care programs (
family child care homes, group
child care homes and
child care centers) to make sure they meet minimum health and safety standards.
Family child care homes are licensed or
regulated by the state.
We also believe that the number of young
children proposed for
regulated family child care — six two year olds in a private
home with one caregiver — to be too high to constitute «quality» or even safety.
California law prohibits cities from
regulating small
family child care homes (licensed for eight or fewer
children) but allows cities to place some restrictions on large
family child care homes, which may serve no more than fourteen
children.
However, state law allows cities and counties to have some flexibility in
regulating large
family child care homes.
T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood ® MICHIGAN is a statewide scholarship program designed to help
child care center teaching staff, preschool teachers,
family child care providers, group
home owners, center directors, early childhood professionals and administrators meet their professional development goals, while continuing their current employment in
regulated early childhood and school age
care settings T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood ® MICHIGAN addresses two major challenges in the early education and
care field — low wages and high turnover.
[i] The law gives Licensing exclusive responsibility for: inspecting and deciding whether a
family child care home meets all the state health and safety state requirements to be licensed;
regulating the number of
children that can be
cared for in a
home; certifying the hours of
child care operation; and conducting ongoing inspections.
Health & Safety Code § § 1596.70 et seq., overall goal of expanding
child care availability by strictly limiting local governments» authority to
regulate family child care, a person would need to give a strong reason why he / she is affected by the large
family child care home.