ACF-800 Reporting Definitions |
Child Care Biannual Aggregate Report
Note: Data reported should include all Child Care and Development Fund services regardless of funding stream (Discretionary, Mandatory, Matching, State Match, Maintenance of Effort, and Transfers from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program).
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| 1. Number of Families | Report the total unduplicated number of families assisted during the report period, counting each family assisted once (even if a family has exited and re-entered the program). |
| 2. Number of Children | Report the total unduplicated number of children assisted during the report period, counting each child assisted once (even if a child has exited and re-entered the program). In the columns across the page, indicate the number of children served by the primary type of provider (see definitions below ). Count each child once, even if they receive services from more than one type of provider, using the category which serves as the primary caregiver. The sum of the columns should equal the number in column (A), row 2. |
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Payment Methods
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| 3. Number of children served through grants or contracts with providers | Report the total unduplicated number of children served through grants and contracts with providers (for slots) during the last month of the reporting period (or the last month of service for those children leaving the program before the end of the report period). Count each child once, even if they receive services from more than one type of provider, using the category which serves as the primary caregiver. In the columns across the page, indicate the type of providers (see definitions below) which received grants and contracts. The sum of the columns should equal the number in column (A), row 3. |
| 4. Number of children receiving child care services through certificates and/or cash to parents, to parents and providers, or to providers | Report the total unduplicated number of children served through certificates (including cash) to parents, to parents and providers, or to providers during the last month of the reporting period (or the last month of service for those children leaving the program before the end of the report period). In the columns across the page, indicate the number of children served by type of primary providers (see definitions below ) which received payment through certificates. Count each child once, even if they receive services from more than one type of provider, using the category which serves as the primary caregiver. The sum of the columns should equal the number in column (A), row 4. |
| 5. Of the children served through certificates, number of children served through cash payments directly to parents (only) | Report the total number of children served whose families receive direct cash payments or cash certificates (does not include two-party checks to parents and providers or cash to providers) during the last month of the reporting period (or the last month of service for those children leaving the program before the end of the report period). In the columns across the page, indicate the number of children served by the type of primary providers (see definitions below ) which received cash payments from parents. Count each child once, even if they receive services from more than one type of provider, using the category which serves as the primary caregiver. The sum of the columns should equal the number in column (A), row 5. |
| 6. Number of child care providers receiving CCDF funding by type of care | Report the total number of child care providers serving subsidized families. Count each provider once. Across the columns indicate the number of providers serving subsidized families by provider type. If a provider should provide more than one type of care (i.e. in-home and family child care) place the provider in the category for which the most hours of service are provided. If an equal number of hours are provided, the State has the discretion as to which category to report the provider. |
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Consumer Education
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| 7. Estimated number of families receiving consumer education. | Report an estimated number of families receiving consumer education to promote informed child care choices. An explanation of the methodology for calculating this number should be attached to the report. |
| 8-16. Methods of Consumer Education | Indicate Y for yes if the State provides this method of consumer education on a regular basis as established in the States child care policy, or N for no if the State does not provide this method of consumer education on a regular basis. If reporting a Y for 16. the State should provide an explanation of the methods of consumer education that do not fit in the 5a-h categories. (Nothing is implied from the listing to suggest that these are the preferred or only methods of consumer education.) |
| Types of Providers | Provider types are broken up into two broad categories of licensed/regulated and legally operating (no license category available in state or locality). Under each of these categories are four types of providers: in-home, family home, group home, and centers. (See columns (b) through (l).) |
| Licensed or regulated provider | Provider legally regulated or licensed by State or local public agency or through a States designated licensing agent. |
| Legally operating provider (license category not available) | Legally operating care provided in a child's home, family child care home, group home, or center-based site for which licensing is not a requirement of the State or locality. |
| Child's Home | Care provided by a caregiver in the child's home. |
| Family Home | Care provided in a family child care home. |
| Group Home | Care provided in a group child care home (as differentiated from a family child care home by the grantee.) |
| Center | Care provided in a center-based setting, including programs in schools. |
| Relative | A provider who is at least 18 years of age and who is a grandparent, great-grandparent, aunt or uncle, or sibling living outside the child's home. |
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