UCguy, you’re new on this blog. As you can see here, sdr has a “knee-jerk” tendency to “stalk” my posts in attempt to discredit me. I would challenge you to find out for yourself how much cheaper licensed home day care is than a day care center. This has always been the case and I think you will be shocked when you find out the price difference. Having used both in my lifetime, I felt the love, attention and care and even pre-K programs my children got with the licensed home daycare providers was superior to a more expensive center. However, my children did not have any “special needs.”
IIRC, a licensed family daycare home or center in CA has to have one helper when 7 children or more are present and 2 helpers when 11 children or more are present (usually after-school care). I believe the cap is 14 children at any one time for a licensed daycare home. For infants under one year old, there must be one caregiver to every four infants and they can’t have any other duties except to those infants.
