This executive summary presents the key findings from a larger report: Gina Adams, Catherine Kuhns, and Fernando Hernandez-Lepe, Untapped Potential License-Exempt Home-Based Child Care Providers and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2023). The full report examines a major gap in the CACFP’s ability to reach children in nonparental child care settings. Specifically, although it is allowed under CACFP law, most states do not extend CACFP eligibility to the estimated 11.5 million children cared for by small home-based child care providers and friends and relatives who are legally exempt from their state’s child care licensing requirements (NSECE 2021b)—providers that we refer to as license-exempt home-based (LEHBCC) providers in this project. In fact, more children are cared for in these LEHBCC settings than are cared for in the child care centers and family child care homes listed with state licensing agencies and other agencies—settings that are allowed to participate in CACFP (NSECE 2021a, 2021b). (author abstract)
Executive summary: Untapped potential: License-exempt home-based child care providers and the Child and Adult Care Food Program
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