OCFS Proposes Health and Safety Safeguards
Informal Child Care Providers
January 5, 2005
The Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) has proposed regulations which would establish new health and safety standards for informal child care providers. The notice of proposed rulemaking, but not the actual text, appeared in the New York State Register on January 5, 2005. Read More

01 OCFS LCM 11
September 7, 2001
Child Care: Revised Health and Safety Requirements for Legally-Exempt Family Child Care, Legally-Exempt In-Home and Legally-Exempt Group Child Care Providers. Read More

Child Care Regulations Fail to Protect Low Income Children
November 1, 1999
On October 1st the Office of Children and Family Services filed amendments to 18 NYCRR Part 415, imposing health and safety standards on informal providers, defining terms which relate to the unavailability of child care for public assistance recipients and codifying the practice of requiring public assistance recipients to search out informal care providers if they fail to find their own regulated care. Read More