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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently proposed new regulations to strengthen standards to better promote the health, safety, and school readiness of children in federally-funded child care. The proposed rules would only apply directly to child care providers who accept Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) money. More than 500,000 providers serve about 1.6 million low-income children through CCDF. Many more children would be impacted, however, because most of the providers also serve non-CCDF children.
Under the proposed rule, states would require that all CCDF-funded child care providers:
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