Minnesota child care providers halt state's plan to revise child care licensing standards due to uninvolving processes.

Minnesota child care providers have halted the state's plans to revise child care licensing standards, citing disrespectful and uninvolving processes. The Minnesota Department of Human Services' (DHS) proposed Family Child Care Regulation Modernization project aimed to address issues such as inspection time and tiered violation systems, but child care providers like Cyndi Cunningham felt their concerns were not properly addressed in the resulting draft. DHS has now decided to go back to the drawing board and include all perspectives in the revision, with the goal of giving the child care community time to weigh in on additional drafts. Cunningham hopes that the revised revisions will be introduced in 2026 and that the state will increase funding for the project.

August 18, 2024
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