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Amendment 5.3.1: The Lead Agency does not inspect or monitor in-home child care providers (care provided in child’s home). The Lead Agency funds in-home child care with state dollars; no CCDF funds or state matching funds are used. Lead Agency does not conduct inspections of in-home providers or post annual inspection or monitoring reports for in-home child care subsidy providers.

Effective Date: 06/11/2020

5.3.2 Inspections for licensed CCDF providers.

Lead agencies must require licensing inspectors to perform inspections-with no fewer than one pre-licensure inspection for compliance with health, safety, and fire standards-of each child care provider and facility in the state/territory. Licensing inspectors are required to perform no fewer than one annual, unannounced inspection of each licensed CCDF provider for compliance with all child care licensing standards; it shall include an inspection for compliance with health and safety (including, but not limited to, those requirements described in 98.41) and fire standards; inspectors may inspect for compliance with all three standards - health, safety, and fire - at the same time (658E(c)(2)(K)(i)(II); 98.16 (n); 98.42(b)(2)(i)). Certify by responding to the questions below to describe your state/territory's monitoring and enforcement procedures to ensure that licensed child care providers comply with licensing standards, including compliance with health and safety (including, but not limited to, those requirements described in 98.41) and fire standards. Effective Date: 10/01/2018

a) Licensed CCDF center-based child care 1. Describe your state/territory's requirements for pre-licensure inspections of licensed child care center providers for compliance with health, safety, and fire standards All licensed child care programs must have pre-licensure inspections that include health, safety, and fire standard requirements. These requirements must be in full compliance before a license will be issued.

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