Ratios & Capacity With And Without An Assistant

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In CA a small family daycare can have 8 with 1 adult, 2 being infants under 24mos. If you have a large family daycare with an owner and asst you can have 16, 4 being under 24mos. So literally you can double your numbers.

Edited- I guess you can only have 14... My bad!

And those maxes can also only be reached if 2 of those children of the 8 are school aged (around 6 years) and at least 2 of the 14 must also school aged, which also can cut into financial issues because some people only want to take under 5 and since school age children would only need care on school vacations/minimum days and for about 1-4 hours after school they are usually part time (unless you offer home schooling for school age; which could be difficult depending on local laws), also your children count when they are there if they are under the age of 10. And (if your renting your home) while your landlord cannot stop you from having a small daycare they can stop you from:
1) With a small license, not allow your full total of 8 children (which means you can only have 6 total)
2) Expanding to a large family child care license

http://www.childcarelaw.org/docs/Q%20&%20A%20Tenants%20Rights%20and%20Responsibilities%202009.pdf

My family wants to move to Oregon and I like the rules there better because:
1) With a registered daycare (similar to small family) you can have a total of 10 kids; if 4 of them are school age
2) With a certified family (similar to large) you can possibly have up to 16 if 4 are school aged but you have to show a plan on how younger and older kids will be separated for most of the day and have an inspection.