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    Licensing, Compliance Inspections, and Technical Assistance for Child Care Centers and Family Day Care Homes

    The purpose of Palm Beach County’s child care licensing program is to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the children of Palm Beach County and promote their emotional and intellectual development and care.

Administration: The Board of County Commissioners of Palm Beach County, Florida, acting as the Child Care Facilities Board, is the local licensing agency for child care facilities in Palm Beach County. The Board has appointed a 7-member Child Care Advisory Council (CCAC) to act on the Board's behalf for approving, denying, or revoking licenses, and for recommending revisions to local child care rules and regulations. The CCAC meets monthly, and the meeting is open to the public.

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The Palm Beach County Health Department serves as staff to the CCAC, and is responsible for administering the child care licensing program. This includes conducting inspections of child care centers and family day care facilities to ensure that minimum standards are met and maintained for issuing and renewing licenses. The Department’s child care inspectors also provide information, consultations, and technical assistance to licensed facilities and prospective facility owners and operators.


Local Regulations: Licensing rules constitute the most basic level of protection for children. Chapter 59-1698, Special
Act, Laws of Florida, as amended by Chapter 77-620, Special Acts, Laws of Florida, Palm Beach County’s Rules and Regulations Governing Child Care Facilities, and Palm Beach County’s Rules and Regulations Governing Family Day Care Facilities provide the legal framework for child care licensing. The Special Act allows Palm Beach County to create its own local rules and regulations for child care facilities and family day care homes. By law, local child care standards must be at least as stringent as the State requirements.

The Department’s program of regulations, inspections, consultations, education, and enforcement fulfill the following broad objectives:

  • Reduce risks related to communicable disease transmission and injuries resulting from unsafe physical environment;
     
  • Protect children from various forms of harm caused by unfit caregivers in child care settings; and
     
  • Prevent inadequate supervision, child abuse and neglect, and other general inappropriate and harmful treatment of children.

Licensure Required: In Palm Beach County, child care facilities and family day care homes are required to be licensed or approved before providing child care services. Currently, large family child care homes are not permitted in Palm Beach County.
 

Child Care Facility: means any building or shelter in which custodial care is rendered to six (6) or more children, and for which compensation is received in the form of a payment, fee, grant, goods or services in kind for any of the children receiving care, whether or not operating for profit or which is held out to the public to be an establishment which regularly provides child custodial care.

Palm Beach County Health Department Child Care Provider search.  Child Care Provider Search

 

To locate a Child care Facility within Palm Beach County.
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Rules Governing Child Care Facilities



Family Day Care Facilities: means any building or shelter in which custodial care is rendered to one to five children, inclusive, and for which compensation is received in the form of a payment, fee, grant, goods or services in kind for any of the children receiving care, whether or not operating for profit, or which is held out to the public to be an establishment which regularly provides child custodial care.

You can view highlights of Family Day Care license requirements and a checklistpdf document - opens new window of these Family Day Care requirements. For rules and regulations governing Family Day Care Homes, Family Child Care Homes, Family Child Care Facilities see the list below.

Rules Governing Family Day Care Facilities

Family Day Care Forms and List of Facilities

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New Law Affecting Child Care Facilities, Family Day
Care Homes and Large Family Child Care Homes

DuringImmunization Brochure and Information the 2009 legislative session, a new law was passed that requires child care facilities, family day care homes and large family child care homes provide parents with information detailing the causes, symptoms, and transmission of the influenza virus (the flu) every year during August and September.
The Department of Children and Family Services in consultation with the Department of Health created a brochure for providers to give to parents/legal guardians to meet this new requirement.   The brochure explains to parents/legal guardians the causes and symptoms of the flu, how the influenza virus may be transferred, and how it should be treated.

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