Virginia Child Care Licensing Background
Virginia Child Care Licensing
In Virginia, licensing requirements apply to providers who regularly care for unrelated children under age 13. Specific licensing rules apply to different types of child care centers and family child care homes. See below for some quick links related to child care in Virginia.
FAMILY CHILD CARE HOMES (Virginia requires licensing as a FCC home when a provider cares for 5 or more unrelated children). The VA State legislature passed a new law in April of 2015, which reduced the licensing threshold from 6 to 5 unrelated children.
- Family Child Care Home Licensing Thresholds (e.g., How many children can be in a home before a state requires that the provider obtain a license)?
- VA family Day Home regulations
CHILD CARE CENTERS
- VA Child Care Center regulations
- State Child Ratios by Use in Center-based Classrooms (January 2025)
- Lead Teacher and Director Center-based Minimum Education, FCC Minimum Education by State (June 2022)
- What We Know, Don't Know, and Should Know About the Child Care Workforce (Bipartisan Policy Center, April 30, 2024) State Profiles.
State by State Comparison on Key Child Care Policies
