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Below are key provisions of the Child Care and Development Fund. More detailed information is available throughout this resource guide.
CCDF Plan (ACF-118): By statute, Lead Agencies are required to have in place an ACF-approved CCDF Plan, describing how a Lead Agency will implement the provisions of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 (CCDBG Act) and CCDF regulations to be submitted on a triennial basis.  States are required to submit plan amendments as changes are made in the implementation of the program. In the CCDF Plan, states provide descriptions of the child care program and certify or assure that specific requirements are met as required by the statute. Submission date is July 1st every 3 years (beginning in 2016).
Parental choice: The statute provides for parental choice in allowing parents to enroll their children with providers who have a grant or contract for child care services, or be provided a child care certificate. Lead Agencies are required to offer the choice of a provider who has a grant or contract if such services are available. If provided a certificate, the regulations require parents to be allowed to choose any legally operating child care provider who meets the CCDF health and safety requirements and who is eligible to provide services to families receiving CCDF assistance. A certificate or voucher is defined in the statute as a check or other disbursement that is issued by a state or local government under the statute directly to a parent who may use the certificate or voucher only as payment for child care.
The regulations define child care provider as one who provides child care either in a center, a family home, or in the child's own home.  Care by a sectarian provider, a relative provider, and any other type of legally provided child care are allowable choices.  To receive CCDF Funds, states may not impose health and safety requirements or payment rates that restrict parental choice by excluding any category of care or type of provider; excluding any type of provider within a category of care; limiting access to or choice among categories of care or types of providers; or excluding a significant number of providers in any category or type of care.
Source: CCDBG Act of 2015 658G(a)(2).
By statute, a Lead Agency must certify that it has in effect licensing requirements applicable to child care services provided within the state, and provide a detailed description of such requirements and how they are effectively enforced.
By statute, a Lead Agency must certify that there are requirements in place designed to protect the health and safety of children that are applicable to the providers that serve children supported through CCDF. The requirements must address 10 specified health and safety topics as well as child abuse reporting. With the exception of relative providers, all providers of care to children supported through CCDF must meet the basic health and safety standards—whether through licensure or regulation or through requirements designed by the Lead Agency that apply to unregulated providers serving families receiving CCDF.
 CCDBG Act of 2014 658E; Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.16 (2016).
 CCDBG Act of 2014 658P(3); Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.20 (2016).
 CCDBG Act of 2014 658P(6); Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.2 (2016).
 CCDBG Act of 2014 658E(c)(3)(B)(i); Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.46 (2016).
 Lead Agencies may limit the use of in-home care [Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.30(f)(2) (2016)].
 CCDBG Act of 2014 658E(c)(2)(A); Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.30 (2016).
 Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.33 (2016).
 Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.45(l) (2016).
 Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.45 (2016).
 Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.45(k) (2016).
 Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.54 (2016).
 CCDBG Act of 2014 658E(c)(3)(E); Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.50(f) (2016).
 Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.50(e) (2016).
 Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.50(b) (2016).
 CCDBG Act of 2014 658G(b); Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.41 (2016).
 CCDBG Act of 2014 658E(c)(2)(E); Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.40 (2016).
 CCDBG Act of 2014 658E(c)(2)(I-L); Child Care and Development Fund, 45 C.F.R. § 98.41 (2016).
 CCDBG Act of 2014 658H.

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