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FY 2017 Final Data Table 17 - Average Monthly Mean Family Co-payment as a Percent of Family Income

FY 2018 Preliminary Data Table 1 - Average Monthly Adjusted Number of Families and Children Served

BACKGROUND 

The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program help low-income families with children under the age of 13 pay for child care services. CCDF is a block grant program administered by states, territories, and tribes that provides child care subsidies through vouchers or certificates to low-income families, and grants and contracts with providers in some states. CCDF supports access to child care services for low-income families, so parents can work, attend school, or enroll in training. Additionally, CCDF promotes the healthy development of children by improving the quality of early learning and afterschool experiences for both subsidized and unsubsidized children. Within the federal regulations, state lead agencies decide how to administer the CCDF subsidy programs. States determine payment rates for child care providers, copayment amounts for families, specific eligibility requirements, and have some flexibilities on how to prioritize CCDF services. CCDF administrative data, including monthly case-level data reported on the ACF-801, provides information about the characteristics (including income) of families receiving a child care subsidy. Fiscal year 2017 ACF-801 CCDF administrative data (most recent year available) indicates that approximately 1.32 million children and 796,000 families per month received CCDF child care assistance in fiscal year 2017. The CCDF subsidy program emphasizes parental choice; therefore, children are cared for in a wide variety of settings. Nationally, in fiscal year 2017: (1) 75 percent of children receiving subsidies were cared for in center-based care; (2) 21 percent of children receiving CCDF assistance were cared for in family child care homes; (3) 3 percent of children were cared for in the child’s own home; and (4) the data was not reported or was invalid for the remaining 1 percent. For many parents, affordable child care and school-age care are critical to maintaining stable jobs. According to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data, in 2018, at least one parent was employed in 91 percent of families with children under the age of 18, and 72 percent of women with children were working or looking for work¹.

1 Table 4. Families with own children: Employment status of parents by age of youngest child and family type, 2017-2018 annual averages. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.t04.htm  

This Program Instruction is a reminder to Tribal Lead Agencies of the CCDF annual reporting requirements (i.e., ACF-700), consistent with the terms and conditions of the CCDF program

This Program Instruction (PI) transmits guidance for using the Tribal CCDF Plan Preprint (Preprint) (ACF-118-A) (Attachment A) to complete and submit the Tribal Lead Agency’s CCDF Plan (Plan) for the CCDF program Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-2022 triennial Section 658E of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014 relevant to Tribes.

FY 2016 Final Data Table 16 - Average Monthly Percent of Families Reporting Income from TANF

FY 2017 Preliminary Data Table 12a - Average Monthly Percent of Children In Care By Race and Ethnicity (Preliminary FY 2016)

FY 2016 Final Data Table 3 - Average Monthly Percentages of Children Served by Types of Care

FY 2016 Final Data Table 4 - Average Monthly Percentages of Children Served in Regulated Settings vs. Settings Legally Operating Without Regulation

FY 2016 Final Data Table 15 - Average Monthly Subsidy Paid to Provider by Age Group and Care Type