How Many Children Can You Have in Your Home Before You are a Day Care?

[Unregistered]

Hi,
I was wondering how many children can I have in my home, in the State of Pennsylvania before I am considered a day care? I guess what I am trying to ask is if I watch my friends two kids and my two kids are here and if my other friend decides to have me watch her two kids full time do I need to get a liscense? Do I need to call someone? I don't want to do anything illegal, or have any of my neighbors thinking im doing anything illegal. I just get paranoid. Can anyone help me with this question?

[Unregistered]

You need to look up the law for your state. It is diff everywhere.
But serioulsy I would not be so paranoid. CPS doesnt have time to go knocking on the doors of sahm's watching their neighbors kids.

[Unregistered]

You can have 5....

[GretasLittleFriends]

It is different from state to state. For example in Minnesota I could only take care of one family's children without a license legally. How would the county know? I suppose if I advertised or a family was unhappy with me and decided to report me. Needless to say, I only took care of the one boy until I had my license.

I did a little google research and found this...

http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/ServicesPrograms/ChildCareEarlyEd/003670907.htm

It states:
"Child Care Center - A child care facility in which seven or more children who are not related to the operator receive child care. A child care center must have a certificate of compliance ("license") from the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) in order to legally operate."

Hope this helps!

[Unregistered]

I'm in PA, and we can watch 3 children who are not our own. At 4 kids, we would need to be licensed.

[Unregistered]

It is different from state to state. For example in Minnesota I could only take care of one family's children without a license legally. How would the county know? I suppose if I advertised or a family was unhappy with me and decided to report me. Needless to say, I only took care of the one boy until I had my license.

I did a little google research and found this...

http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/ServicesPrograms/ChildCareEarlyEd/003670907.htm

It states:
"Child Care Center - A child care facility in which seven or more children who are not related to the operator receive child care. A child care center must have a certificate of compliance ("license") from the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) in order to legally operate."

Hope this helps!

I heard the same for here in Florida that you can only watch one family's kids w/out being licensed. But what if that one family has many kids like 5+? That's ok? It doesn't make sense.

[ashley]

childcare

Do i need some kind of license to watch children in my home?

[wejo928]

Pa regulations

State of PA says:
You can care for up to 3 children unrelated to you at a time w/out a licence.
4 to 6 is a family daycare that need to be licenced.
7 or more i s a center needing licencing.
No limit on hours.

But check your township. I can only have 4 to 5 in a family care here by their standards. And hours of licenced is 7am to 7 pm. So after that I have to stick to the 3 limit form 7 pm to 7 am.

It is ok and legal to have 3 in am and 3 in pm as long as not more than there at the same time.

I persoanlly have 2 in am 8:30 to 4:30 pm, 1 from 5:00 pm to 2:00 am and another child comes different times either 7 am to 5 pm or 7 pm to 7 am. so it changes but I do not have more than 3 at a time.

My bio children as well as foster, custody care and respite care children do not count towards the ratio.

I am currantly working on my licencing but wonderin if it is worth it. (been unlicenced for over 10 years, pay my taxes, have EIN number as well as a Fictious name) So far I put out over $1000 for lawyer fees just to get approval from the Township.

But I will get rembursed for meal & snacks plus pay is more thru CCIS.

[Unregistered]

Here's a list of the licensing agencies by state - http://www.daycarematch.com/resources.asp Most list on the website what the rules are for each state.

Mel

[Michael]

Pennsylvannia ratios and contact numbers

You can find Pennsylvannia ratios and contact numbers here: https://www.daycare.com/pennsylvania/

[Unregistered]

Watching Children in my home?

I was wondering if i watched children in my home, how many can i take care of without being licensed in California?

Hi,
I was wondering how many children can I have in my home, in the State of Pennsylvania before I am considered a day care? I guess what I am trying to ask is if I watch my friends two kids and my two kids are here and if my other friend decides to have me watch her two kids full time do I need to get a liscense? Do I need to call someone? I don't want to do anything illegal, or have any of my neighbors thinking im doing anything illegal. I just get paranoid. Can anyone help me with this question?

[sharlan]

I was wondering if i watched children in my home, how many can i take care of without being licensed in California?

One non related family.

[Meeko]

In my state you can tend up to four unlicensed. But it's different for each state

[Unregistered]

Florida child care laws?

My wife and I recently had our daughter with three other children in the care of a women and her own three children. Total of six, We thought she was FL licensed and it turns out she is not. I have looked @ the state laws and requirements but I cannot find information regarding this matter? Do you have any suggestions on who to call or to report this person to the proper authorities?

[Blackcat31]

My wife and I recently had our daughter with three other children in the care of a women and her own three children. Total of six, We thought she was FL licensed and it turns out she is not. I have looked @ the state laws and requirements but I cannot find information regarding this matter? Do you have any suggestions on who to call or to report this person to the proper authorities?

https://www.daycare.com/florida/

Try here. You can find the state licensing laws for each state on this sites homepage.

https://www.daycare.com/states.html