Kids' Advocacy Coalition
Child Care Resource and Referral
of South Central Georgia

Provider Requirements

Child Care Center

• Is operated by a person, society, agency, corporation, institution, or group that receives pay for group care.
  
  
• Children remain less than 24 hours per day.
  
  
• Provides care for 19 or more children, less than 18 years of age.

Group Day Care Home

• Is operated by any person, partnership, association, or corporation that receives pay for group care.
  
  
• Operates less than 24 hours per day.
  
  
• Provides care for 7 to 18 children, less than 18 years of age.

Family Child Care

• Is operated in a private residential home.
  
  
• Operates less than 24 hours per day.
  
  
• Provides care for 3, but no more than 6 children under the age of 18 for pay.

If you are interested in obtaining a licensing report on a licensed family child care provider, group home day care or day care center, visit the Bright From the Start: Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) website.

Complaints regarding child care providers can also be directed to Bright From the Start: DECAL at (404)463-0703 or to the Child Care Resource and Referral Agency at (888)893-4582.