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Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announced a reorganization that establishes an Office of Child Care (OCC) that will administer the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). The CCDF provides child care subsidies for 1.6 million children in low-income families each month and works to improve the quality of child care in states, territories, and tribes across the country.

The federal Office of Child Care (OCC) today announced four new national centers that will provide child care technical assistance to states, territories and tribes to improve the quality of school-age care and early care and education.

New proposed rules to improve child care were announced today by HHS’s  Administration for Children and Families.  The proposed rules increase health and safety requirements for child care programs and providers, make child care financial assistance more manageable for low-income working parents, improve and expand information all parents have about child care options, and ensuring more low-income children have access to high-quality child care. 

The First Lady’s Let’s Move! Child Care Initiative Recognizes Exceptional Efforts to Promote Healthy Lifestyles

HHS’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has announced 122 funding opportunities totaling nearly $600 million to provide Head Start and Early Head Start services to children and families in communities across the country.

Helping to answer President Obama’s call to ensure quality early education for every American child, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed today a new regulation for public comment that will better ensure children’s health and safety in child care and promote school readiness. Under the proposed rule, states, territories and tribes would be required to strengthen their standards to better promote the health, safety and school readiness of children in federally funded child care.