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Family Child Care Home Licensing Information

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FAMILY CHILD CARE IS A BUSINESS

If you are considering opening a Family Child Care Home, ask yourself the following questions:

Do I enjoy working with children?
Am I knowledgeable about child development or willing to learn more about child development?
Am I ready to be a professional business owner?
Would I like to be able to set my own hours and wages?
Would I like to work at home so that I can stay at home with my own children?
Am I willing to open my home to other families and to have my home inspected by the Child Care Licensing Agency?
Is my family supportive of my plans to operate a Family Child Care Home, and are they willing to get criminal background checks and meet all the requirements of people in the home?
Am I willing to meet all licensing requirements and, if required, make changes to my home (e. g. build a 5-foot fence around my swimming pool)?
Am I ready to take responsibility for the health and safety of children other than my own?

If so, Family Child Care may offer you a rewarding and challenging career opportunity.

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In order to get a Family Child Care Home License:

1. You must attend an orientation

You may register for an online orientation or in-person orientation. In-person orientations are scheduled on a regular basis throughout California.

There is an orientation fee and it is nonrefundable, so be sure that you meet the qualifications for a license before you sign up for an orientation.

To review the qualifications for a license and Pre-Orientation Registration Information, click on the appropriate link: (English), (Espanol/Spanish), (Chinese).

You may sign up for an in-person orientation by viewing the orientation schedules and contacting your local Regional Office. The Regional Office directory will show you what counties each Child Care Licensing office covers. Online orientations are available as soon as you register.

2. You must be familiar with all Family Child Care Home licensing laws and regulations.

The Family Child Care Home licensing requirements are available on our Laws and Regulations page.

3. You must complete and submit all the information and forms required in the application packet. We will not accept your application until after you have completed the orientation. There is an application fee that is nonrefundable.

4. You must undergo a pre-licensing inspection. A Licensing Program Analyst will contact you to schedule an inspection of your home.

If you are ready to sign up for an orientation, please view the orientation schedules and contact your local licensing office or register for an online orientation.

VIDEO: How to Apply for a Family Child Care License.

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Child Care Licensing Program
744 P Street, MS T9-15-48
Sacramento, CA 95814

Local Regional Offices

Inyo and Del Norte Counties
(Family Child Care Homes Only)

Child Care Advocates - (916) 654-1541
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CCLD Complaint Hotline
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Information regarding filing a complaint

Quick Links

Child Care Transparency Website (Licensing Facility Inspection Reports)
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Child Care Licensing Orientations
Help Paying for Child Care
California Background Check Process
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How to Become Licensed

CDSS Programs Community Care Licensing Child Care Licensing How to Become Licensed

The Child Care Licensing Program licenses both Child Care Centers (CCCs) and Family Child Care Homes (FCCHs) in California. Child Care Centers are usually located in a commercial building and Family Child Care Homes are in a licensee’s home. Only non-medical care and supervision can be provided in child care facilities and care is limited to periods of less than 24 hours.

The Child Care Licensing Program ensures that child care facilities operate according to the California Health and Safety Code and Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations in a number of ways:

In-person and online orientations
Pre-licensing inspections
Unannounced facility inspections
Complaint investigations
Consultations
Education and technical support, and
Follow-up inspections

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CCIP Family Child Care Provider Stories

Do you love caring for children? The California Child Care Initiative Project (CCIP) will help you launch and grow your home-based child care business. Watch these videos to learn more about the program.

Fact Sheets:

Family Child Care Home Provider Requirements – English Form Spanish Form
Family Child Care Home Capacity Requirements – English Form Spanish Form
Child Care Center Provider Requirements
Child Care Center Capacity Requirements

Resources:

Self-Assessment Guides
Forms and Brochures
Centralized Complaint and Information Bureau
Child Care Quarterly Updates
Mandated Reporter Training
Child Care Related Websites
Child Care Videos for Providers and Parents

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Community Care Licensing Division
Child Care Licensing Program
744 P Street, MS T9-15-48
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-6040

Child Care Advocates - (916) 654-1541
ChildCareAdvocatesProgram@dss. ca.gov

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To file a complaint regarding a state licensed community care facility or child care facility visit our Complaint Hotline Page for contact information and more.

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By law, you can be on parental leave for three years.

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Mothers, fathers or other relatives, while on such leave, receive benefits until the child reaches one and a half years. nine0003

We have already written how to calculate maternity payments. In this article I will tell you how benefits are calculated and assigned for a child up to three years old.

What laws regulate the granting of allowance for a child up to three years old

The right to a monthly allowance for child care is guaranteed by the federal law "On State Benefits for Citizens with Children".

The right to a monthly allowance for child care

The same law states that the allowance is paid from the day the leave is granted until the child reaches one and a half years. The law does not say anything about benefits from one and a half to three years. nine0003

Duration of payment of the monthly child care allowance

Instead of a benefit from one and a half to three years, mothers or other relatives who have taken parental leave are entitled to compensation - 50 R. But only for children born before 2020.

What has changed in 2020. Families with children born in 2020 and later are no longer paid monthly compensation in the amount of 50 R for children from one and a half to three years old: the presidential decree on the payment of such compensation has become invalid. nine0003

So what? 11/26/19

Payments for children under three years old were cancelled. What does it mean?

If you already receive 50 R for children under three years old, then you will continue to receive money until the children are three years old.

Who is entitled to benefits up to three years

In this article, I will talk about mothers, because they are the ones who most often take parental leave.

Allowance up to one and a half years is due to all mothers who care for children. It doesn’t matter if a woman worked under an employment contract or not, she will receive a child care allowance. But the amount of the benefit is different. Here is what affects him:

The salary that the mother received before pregnancy.
Family status - for example, a family may be considered indigent.
Status of the child - for example, a child with a disability.

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How can a man go on maternity leave

A mother without work experience will receive the least, and a mother with a good salary and a special child will receive the most.

I will tell you more about the possible amounts of benefits for a child up to one and a half years below.

Compensation in the amount of 50 R is due only to those who are employed, and provided that the child was born before 2020. This amount is fixed.

Which family is considered poor

In Russia, a poor family is one whose average per capita income per family member is less than the subsistence minimum established in the region of residence.

Determine if the family is poor, as follows:

Calculate the family income for the last three months from the date of application to social protection. Income includes all salaries, pensions, allowances, scholarships. nine0089
The amount of income divided by 3 is the average monthly family income.
The average monthly income is divided by the number of family members to get the average per capita family income. It is he who is compared with the subsistence minimum per capita in the region where the family lives.

st. 7 of the Federal Law No. 178 “On State Social Assistance”

For the poor, the state has developed a special program, according to which, in addition to the child care allowance, the mother receives additional money. nine0003

Types of allowances for a child up to three years

A pregnant woman, and then a woman who has given birth, is entitled to maternity allowance, child care allowance and sometimes other payments - it depends on the situation in the family.

Maternity payments , or maternity allowance, are due to women who work under an employment contract, and also to those who were fired due to the liquidation of the organization or the termination of the activity of the individual entrepreneur.

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How can an individual entrepreneur receive maternity payments?

In addition to them, individual entrepreneurs who pay contributions to the Social Insurance Fund, the Social Insurance Fund, as well as civil servants, full-time students of universities and colleges can receive maternity payments.

This money is paid once - before maternity leave.

Child allowance is a child care allowance that is paid by the FSS every month until the child reaches one and a half years.

Child allowance up to one and a half years for the unemployed is issued to the FIU. A certificate is needed from the second parent that he does not receive such benefits.

If a parent applies for benefits through an employer or the Social Insurance Fund, then certificates from a spouse or other relatives are not needed. Since 2022, the Social Insurance Fund itself determines whether someone already receives an allowance for caring for this child.

Payments to parents of a disabled child . In addition to child care allowance, a mother can apply for a social pension, as well as monthly assistance.

Disability pension and caregiver's benefit are paid up to the age of 18. nine0003

Payments to low-income families are provided for by federal and regional legislation. At the federal level, this is a monthly allowance for the first or second child, the so-called Putin's payments. The allowance is not intended specifically for low-income families, but with a high degree of probability, it is the low-income family that will have the right to Putin's payments. This allowance is paid for up to three years.

In some regions, support measures are provided directly to low-income families with small children. For example, in Moscow, children under three years old from low-income families are paid from 8896 R to 17,791 R per month.

Other types . There are also additional payments to families in which fathers serve on conscription. They are paid until the child is three years old, but payments stop if the father has served and returned home.

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Payments and benefits for a child in 2022

Who pays the benefits

The allowance for caring for a child up to one and a half years old is paid by the FSS or PFR. Some employees who have become parents are also entitled to financial assistance from their employers. nine0003

FSS. Today, in all regions of the Russian Federation, there is a project for direct payments from the Social Insurance Fund - child care benefits are paid directly by the fund. But, if you are employed, you still need to apply for benefits to the employer: he will transfer the information to the FSS, and he will transfer the money.

PFR. The unemployed and women apply to the pension fund, who were fired during parental leave due to the liquidation of the organization.

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What child benefits are due to unemployed parents

Employer. Some corporations and other large employers are developing a company's social policy: they think over when and how they will financially support their employees. Such programs operate, for example, in Gazprom and Tatneft.

Parental leave is often the situation when an employer provides financial assistance to employees. That is, a woman receives both child care allowance and financial assistance from the employer. nine0003

For a child with a disability, payments come from the pension fund. To support low-income families, money is allocated from the federal and regional budgets, but these payments are processed in social security.

The procedure for granting benefits

Most of the benefits are assigned on a declarative basis - that is, in order for a woman to receive them, she must write an application and provide documents.

Documents for receiving benefits

If a woman works under an employment contract, she needs to bring a child's birth certificate to the accounting department at work. A certificate from the father stating that he did not apply for child care allowance for up to one and a half years, from 2022, it is no longer necessary to submit for work. nine0003

You also need to bring a certificate from the previous employer about the amount of wages in order to calculate the allowance if the woman changed jobs during the previous two years.

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How to get payments when a child is born

If a woman is unemployed, she needs to prepare a copy of her passport, a copy of the birth certificate of the child, a copy of the work book, a certificate of non-receipt of unemployment benefits, and a certificate from the father that he did not take parental leave. The FIU has no information about this, so it needs such a certificate. nine0003

If a woman wants to make payments for a low-income family, then in addition to the main documents, she needs to prepare income certificates for her and her husband.

Application for benefit is filled in in any form.

Application deadline for benefits up to one and a half years - up to two years of the child. Children up to three years of age can apply for Putin's payments.

Art. 12 Federal Law "On compulsory social insurance in case of temporary disability and in connection with motherhood"

Where to submit documents: to the accounting department at the place of work, to the Pension Fund, the Social Insurance Fund, social security or the MFC. In some regions, working parents can apply for benefits for up to a year and a half through public services.

Amount of benefits

Maternity allowance. The amount of maternity leave is calculated according to one of two formulas: based on salary or based on the minimum wage. The formula is chosen depending on the length of service and the amount of the woman's earnings two years before pregnancy. nine0003

Formulas for calculating maternity payments

Formula for calculating maternity payments based on salary in 2022:

Salary and other labor income for 2020-2021, but not more than 1,878,000 R ÷ 730 (minus the number of days that the woman was on sick leave, on maternity or parental leave) × number of days of maternity leave

Formula for calculating maternity payments based on the minimum wage from June 2022:

15,279 R × 24 months ÷ 730 days × number of days of maternity leave

Term of the decree and amount of payments

Circumstances	Term	Amount
Ordinary Decree	140 days	70,324. 8 R
Complicated labor	156 days	78,361.92 Р
Multiple pregnancy	194 days	97450.08 P

Ordinary decree

term

140 days

amount

70 324.8 p

Complicated birth

Dermat

156 days

78 361.92 R

Multi -sex pregnancy 9000 194 days

Amount

97,450.08 R

Child care allowance . How much they will pay in 2022 is calculated according to the following formula:

Salary and other labor income for 2020-2021, but not more than 1,878,000 R ÷ 730 days (minus the number of days that a woman was on sick leave or on vacation for pregnancy or parental leave) × 30.4 × by 40%

In 2022, you should get at least 7677.81 R and not more than 31 282.82 R per month. The maximum for the whole of Russia is the same.

The unemployed and those whose average salary for two years is less than the minimum wage are paid a fixed allowance - 7677. 81 R. This amount is increased by the district coefficient, if it is applied in the locality.

Putin's payments depend on the subsistence minimum - PM. Families in which the average monthly income per family member is not higher than twice the regional subsistence level are entitled to the subsistence level per child. On average, this is 14,000-15,000 R.

From June 1, 2022, the minimum wage and subsistence minimums have increased. As a result, social payments tied to the PM also increased.

Duration of payments

Child care allowance is paid strictly until the child reaches the age of 1 year and 6 months. If this date falls, for example, in the middle of the month, then the amount of the benefit is calculated in proportion to the days.

For example, the child of an unemployed mother turned one and a half years old on June 15. The allowance will be calculated as follows: 7677.81 R ÷ 30 days × 15 days. The woman will receive 3838.91 R.

Putin's payments are paid for a year, after which they must be extended, but no longer than up to the child's three years of age.

Payments to low-income families continue as long as established in the regional law. For example, in Tatarstan they pay for six months, and then the applicant needs to confirm his need: re-write the application, bring income certificates.

When payments stop

Childcare benefits stop in two cases:

The child is one and a half years old.
The parent refused the allowance.

All other benefits are terminated in the following cases:

If the payment period has expired, and the family could no longer prove their need or comply with the conditions prescribed by law.
If the social security authority found that the family's real income is higher than declared.
If the child is 3 years old.

What parents say about the fairness of payments

Many consider the principle by which they determine who and how much to pay unfair. This is especially true of Putin's payments.

Date of birth . The resentment is connected with the fact that the date of birth of children is prescribed in the law, starting from which the family has the right to the allowance.

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How I got Putin's payments for a child

Only families with a child born after January 1, 2018 can apply for Putin's payments. That is, if the child was born on December 31, 2017 or earlier, the parents will not be able to apply for benefits. nine0003

There is a second condition: the child must be the first or second. Parents of babies born after January 1, 2018, but no longer the first or second in a row, cannot issue Putin's payments either.

The criterion of need in the law is quite clear: no more than two living wages established in the region where the family lives. If the income in the family is at least 1 R more, you will not be able to apply for benefits.

Source of payments for the second child . If money is allocated for the first child from the federal budget, then money for payments for the second child is taken from maternity capital. Families have to choose: reduce the amount of maternity capital and receive benefits, or refuse benefits and spend maternity capital for other purposes. nine0003

What payments are due to a family with children of a different age

There are many child allowances and payments, the conditions for receiving them are even more - it is easy to get confused in all this. Our test will help you figure it out: