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The following table details the step-down of the enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) Rate through 2023 and 2024.

This Technical Bulletin lists the data standards for the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Annual ACF-800 Report submitted by states and territories to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Care (OCC), including key state-level data required by the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-186).

The ACF-901 is a data collection form designed to collect American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act Stabilization Grants provider-level data.

These new state-by-state ARP Act Stabilization Funding Fact Sheets (PDF) include the total number of child care providers assisted in each state as of June 30, 2023. 

This is an updated National ARP Child Care Stabilization program factsheet.

The American Rescue Plan’s (ARP) Child Care Stabilization program delivered support to over 225,000 child care providers serving as many as 10 million children across the country, helping keep their doors open for millions of working families who rely on them. This is a new fact sheet on the ARP Child Care Stabilization program (PDF) published by the Office of Child Care.

ACF-801 Case Level Data Standards - Technical Bulletin #3r-V9

Technical Bulletin #3r-v9
October 11, 2023

This Technical Bulletin lists the data standards for the ACF-801 Child Care Case Record Form. This Form, which is submitted by States and Territories to the Office of Child Care (OCC), includes key case-level data required by the statute governing the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF).

This Technical Bulletin describes the formatting requirements for the ACF-801 data submission file. These formatting guidelines should be followed by all States and Territories when creating the file for electronic submission to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). All questions about the file format should be directed to the Child Care Automated Reporting System (CARS) Team. This Technical Bulletin provides guidance for implementing provisions of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (Public Law 113-186) of 2014 and makes other revisions to strengthen administrative data reporting 

The purpose of the annual QPR is to capture state and territory progress on how CCDF quality funds were expended, including the activities funded and the measures used by states and territories to evaluate progress in improving the quality of child care programs and services for children from birth to age 13.  The annual data provided will be used to describe state and territory priorities and strategies to key stakeholders, including Congress, Federal, state and territory administrators, providers, parents, and the public. 

The state-level aggregate report, or ACF-800, is one of two data collections undertaken by the Office of Child Care pursuant to the requirements of the Child Care and Development Block Grant of 1990 (42 USC 9801 et seq.) as amended by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PL 104-93) and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (PL 105-33). All Child Care and Development Fund lead agencies in the States, the District of Columbia, and Territories (including Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianna Islands, and the US Virgin Islands) are responsible for completing the ACF-800. For more information, please see the OCC website at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/occ/report/formhelp/acf800/index.htm

As always, when submitting the ACF-800 report, data must include all children served by the Child Care and Development Fund, regardless of funding stream (Discretionary, Mandatory, Matching, State Match, Maintenance of Effort, and Transfers from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program). For States that pool CCDF and non-CCDF Funds, the data also must include all children funded by these sources. All counts should reflect the period that begins October 1 and ends September 30. Each State and Territory must submit the ACF-800 by December 31, reporting on services provided during the preceding Federal Fiscal Year.