Child Care Licensing ensures the health, safety, and well-being of children in licensed child care facilities. To achieve these goals, Child Care Licensing staff monitor facility compliance with state laws and regulations, offers technical assistance and training to caregivers, and provides consumer education.
Child care providers and all licensed facilities are monitored by the State of Nevada Child Care Licensing.
Licensed child care providers receive annual visits from child care licensing. Visit the State of Nevada’s Child Care Licensing Program Search page to review reports and findings. Make sure you select “agency” for the entity type. Once your search results display, click on View Detail in the far right-hand column in the row for your provider.
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Providers that care for children on the Child Care Subsidy Program but are not required to be licensed, must still follow Child Care and Development Program (CCDF) requirements. This includes a comprehensive background check, initial and annual training, and an annual onsite health & safety validation visit. These providers include Out-of-School Time (OST) providers such as Boys & Girls Clubs, Out-of-School Recreation (OSR) providers including City and County Parks & Recreation programs, and Family, Friend & Neighbor Providers (FFN).
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The State of Nevada Child Care Licensing Program must comply with Chapter 432A of both Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) and Nevada Administrative Code (NAC), which govern and regulate child care facilities in Nevada.
Child care providers must have a comprehensive background check every five years and cannot have any disqualifying criminal charges on their record. See the List of Disqualifying Crimes as well as instructions below for obtaining a criminal background check. For more information about background checks and opening a licensing facility, visit the Child Care Licensing page.
Click here to access the Background Check Reimbursement Form.
List of Disqualifying Crimes
First 5 Nevada, a program of The Children's Cabinet, is partially supported with funding from the Administration for Children and Families Child Care and Development Fund through a subaward agreement with the Nevada Division of Social Services, Child Care and Development Program (Grant #G00996005). First 5 Nevada was initially developed with funding from the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five Initiative (PDG B-5), Grant Number 90TP0099, awarded to the Nevada Department of Education, from the Office of Child Care, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the the Office of Child Care, the Administration for Children and Families, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
