Child Care: State Efforts to Enforce Safety and Health Requirements
HEHS-00-28
Published: Jan 24, 2000. Publicly Released: Jan 31, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on states' efforts to ensure the safety and health of children in child care settings, focusing on: (1) the most critical licensing and enforcement activities that help states ensure the safety and health of children in child care; (2) the extent to which states conduct these critical activities for their regulated providers; and (3) how states ensure that nonregulated providers receiving block grant funds meet the law's safety and health requirements.
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