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Daycare License Requirements for Rhode Island

Worker requirements

Must have a current Rhode Island certificate in early childhood education or a bachelor's or master's degree in early childhood education from an accredited or approved school and a minimum of three months supervised teaching experience in a licensed or approved early childhood program (which may be a student teaching experience) or a bachelor's degree from an accredited or approved school and required course work and experience defined in Rhode Island Early Childhood Certification standards.

 

Provider / Child Ratio

Age Range

Ratio For Child Care Centers

Infants

(1:4)

Toddlers

(1:6)

3 years

(1:9)

4 years

(1:10)

5 years

(1:12)

School age

(1:13)

Mixed age group

depends on number/age of youngest child in group

 

Age Range

Ratio For Family Child Care

If care is provided to child under 18 months of age, care for no more than 4 children under 6 years, no more than 2 of which can be under the age of 18 months; providers may have up to 8 children if there is an approved assistant; no more than 4 may be under 18 months old.

 

Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families
Day Care Licensing Unit
101 Friendship Street
Providence, RI 02903
Phone: 401-528-3624 or 401-528-3621
Fax: 401-528-3650
Web site: http://www.dcyf.ri.gov/day_care.php

 

Regulation child daycare centers

http://www.dcyf.ri.gov/docs/center_regs.pdf

 

Regulation family child care home

http://www.dcyf.ri.gov/docs/family_child_care_home.pdf


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