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Virginia Regulations
The state’s regulatory information listed below is verified as of March 13, 2013

Virginia has seven different documents regulating health and safety in child care.
Effective Date
Background Checks for Licensed Child Day Centers 7/1/2005
General Procedures and Information for Licensure 2/16/2011
Standards for Licensed Child Day Centers 11/1/2012
Information for Religiously Exempted Child Day Centers 3/2011
Standards for Licensed Family Day Homes 3/2011
Voluntary Registration of Family Day Homes Requirements for Providers 4/1993
Background Checks for Child Welfare Agencies (applies to Licensed and Voluntarily Registered Family Day Homes and Religously Exempt Child Day Centers) 9/2006

State Licensing Contact

Virginia Department of Social Services
Division of Licensing Programs
801 E. Main Street, 9th Floor
Richmond, VA 23219-3301


Phone: Division of Licensing Programs: 804-726-7165 or (800) 543-7545 or to find the phone number to your regional office, please visit http://www.dss.virginia.gov/contact_us/dolp_district.pdf
Web Page: http://www.dss.virginia.gov/family/cc/index.html


Links to other Virginia State Child Care Contacts
Healthy Child Care America
State Child Care and Development Fund
Child Care and Development fund Tribal Plan for 2012-2013
State Child Care Resource and Referral Agency
State Early Learning Guidelines:
Virginia's Foundation Blocks for Early Learning (2007)