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they meet the family child care learning home or child care learning center licensing requirements, but they must register with the Child and Parent Services (CAPS) program. An Informal Caregiver is a family, friend, or neighbor who provides care for no more than two unrelated (or no more than six related) children for pay. Informal care can be provided only when no other licensed care is available within a reasonable geographic area, during non-traditional hours when licensed care is not available, or if the child in care is determined to meet the special needs definition. For ￿relative informal child care￿ the arrangement may take place at the relative's residence or in the child's residence. The relative must not be included in the family unit. For ￿non-relative informal child care,￿ the non-relative caregiver must provide care in his/her own residence and may not be a resident of the household of the child(ren) receiving care. [ ] No. 5.1.2 CCDF-eligible providers exempt from licensing Identify the categories of CCDF-eligible providers who are exempt from licensing requirements, the types of exemptions, and describe how these exemptions do not endanger the health, safety, and development of children. -Relative providers, as defined in CCDF, are addressed in subsection 5.8. a. License-exempt center-based child care. Describe by answering the questions below. i. Identify the categories of CCDF-eligible center-based child care providers who are exempt from licensing requirements. Georgia law allows some types of classes or groups of programs to be exempt from licensing requirements. While Georgia has 14 exemption classes or groups, the Lead Agency has made a policy decision to pay subsidy in two types of programs: Government-owned and operated programs and school-age day camp programs ii. Describe the exemptions based on length of day, threshold on the number of children in care, ages of children in care, or any other factors applicable to the exemption. 1. Government-owned and operated programs: Programs owned and operated by a department or agency of federal, state, county, or municipal government can receive subsidies. Most government-owned and operated programs in Georgia are operated by local school boards at public schools to serve families that need afterschool child care. The remainder of the programs in this exemption category are mostly operated by local parks and recreation departments for children's extracurricular activities occurring after school or at day camps. 2. School-age day camp programs: Day camp programs for children age five and older that are operated between school terms, whose primary purpose is to provide organized recreational, religious, or instructional activities, can receive subsidies. The day camp programs may operate during summer and other school breaks and shall operate for no more than 12 hours per day. Children in day camp programs are school age only, and the program operates only during school breaks. In some areas of the state, there is a lack of licensed care, meaning that on-site after school programs and day camps are the only resources for working families for care outside school hours. Without this exemption category and the opportunity for subsidy children to attend, families and children could be