Child Care Service Providers A Community of Care

• The provider must be a regulated child care provider as defined below:
  • licensed by Texas Child Care Licensing (CCL);
  • registered with CCL;
• The provider cannot currently be on Corrective or Adverse Action with Child Care Licensing;
• The provider or any staff member cannot be in serious non-compliance, seriously deficient by, or debarred from either state or federal programs such as the child food and nutrition program;
• The provider agrees to accept the maximum reimbursement rates paid by WSB Child Care Services, unless the provider published rate is lower, which is the amount that will be reimbursed;
• The provider agrees to maintain documentation on CCS subsidized children for 3 years and 3 months as required by federal law.

For information about child care licensing requirements, visit the Texas Health and Human Services website.

• The relative must be related to the child/ren by blood, marriage or court decree;
• The relative must be 18 years of age;
• The relative must be related in one of the following ways:
  • The child’s grandparent;
  • The child’s great-grandparent;
  • The child’s aunt or uncle; or
  • The child’s sibling (who resides in a separate residence);
• The parent and relative provider cannot live in the same home (some exceptions apply)
• The relative provider must become a listed provider with Child Care Licensing and sign a Provider Agreement before being paid to provide child care in the relative’s home;
• The relative provider cannot provide care for the child/children in the child’s home unless one of the following applies: The child has a disability that makes it difficult to take the child outside his/her home;
  • The child is under 18 months old;
  • The child is a child of a teen parent;
  • The parent’s work schedule requires evening, overnight, or weekend child care in which taking the child outside of the child’s home would be disruptive to the child;
  • Other child care provider arrangements are not available in the community.

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