Kansas Legislature sends policy loosening regulations on child care to Kelly’s desk By Katie Bernard. April 6, 2023 4:05 PM. The pandemic pushed several child care programs to shut down.

House Bill 1102 author Rep. Dave Heine, R-Fort Wayne, said that child care should generally cost no more than 10% of a household’s income. But Hoosier families, he emphasized, are spending about ...

This story includes details of an infant’s death. After Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan in 2021, states were flush ...

Child Care Aware, a national child care advocacy group, then took the issue on, releasing an analysis of state rules and regulations around safety every year from 2007 to 2013.

Those regulations, which child safety advocates say have saved lives over the last 15 years, would be rolled back under a compromise bill that Gov. Laura Kelly has negotiated with lawmakers.

Family child care providers say the future of their profession is on the line. The Department of Human Services in April released updated licensing standards for both family child care providers ...

Both chambers of the Statehouse passed measures Tuesday designed to increase access to child care by reducing existing regulations. But while the Senate passed its bill – a priority for the ...

WASHINGTON | Parents with children in day care often assume workers have cleared background checks and the facility has passed unannounced inspections, but a review to be released Tuesday finds ...

About 1.6 million children use federal subsidies to attend day care programs at about 500,000 different centers and home-based providers. Even when unannounced inspections are required by states ...

A state panel is considering massive changes to Virginia's day-care regulations that many people say would raise the quality of child care but still fall short of other states' guidelines. Maurice ...