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Riverside County Family Child Care Association>
Regulation of Family Care Questioned
April 24, 2008
April 24, 2008
Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards
than being a father to my children.
Bill Cosby
A report, Leaving Children to Chance, released by the
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral
Agencies takes a close look at the standards and oversight
for small (up to six children) family child care programs.
In the Foreword of the report, NACCRRA's Executive Director
Linda Smith offers this chilling reflection...
"More than 1.7 million children under age six are in family
child care homes every week. And yet, for the most part,
our research on family child care policies found that most
states do little to protect children while they are in
family child care homes. Only 12 states begin to license
family child care when one unrelated child is cared for in
the home. The rest have widely varying thresholds, with
South Dakota at the end of the spectrum: only with the
existence of the 13th child does South Dakota regulate
family child care homes. We chose 14 basic elements of
quality child care to review and score the states. No state
received the maximum allowable points. Only one state
[Oklahoma] received a score of even 75 percent. Fifteen
states scored zero because they do not inspect family child
care homes prior to issuing a license, allow more than six
children to be present without regulation, or do not
license small family child care homes. Of those states with
a score, the average score was 60 out of a possible 140....
"It is our hope that policymakers at the federal and state
level will be motivated to protect children's safety and
help insure their healthy development.... Together we can
make a difference."
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