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Note to Tax Return Preparers Assisting Family Child Care Providers

Assisting family child care providers (“FCCPs”) with their tax returns generally raises the same issues as for all other home-based businesses, like proper proof of income and expense, separation of business and personal expenses, etc. The IRS and Congress have provided special rules for FCCPs, thereby recognizing the difficulty of separating personal expenses from business expenses in a family child care setting.

Guide, Spanish

Respondiendo a Sospecha de Abuso Infantil o Violencia Domestica en un Entorno de Cuidado Infantil

Como proveedor de cuidado infantil, puede encontrar situaciones en las que sospecha o sabe que un nino bajo su cuidado esta siendo abusado o descuidado. Cuando se presentan situaciones como …

Guide

Responding to Suspected Child Abuse or Domestic Violence in Child Care Setting

As a child care provider, you may encounter situations where you suspect or know that a child in your care is being abused or neglected. When situations like this arise, you must follow appropriate procedures to ensure that the child gets help and that you are complying with legal requirements.

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Running a Successful Child Care Business: Practice Good Community Relations

As a child care provider, you are not only a business person but you are a key member of the community in which you work and live. This means that you must have a good working relationship with parents, neighbors, landlords and licensing personnel. In fact, most problems involving the law can be avoided by simply maintaining good relationships with other members of the community.

Template/Sample Form

Sample Parent Provider Contract with COVID provisions [August 2022]

The contract that follows is a sample, not a model; it may contain provisions that are not appropriate for certain providers, and it may not contain others that your program requires. You should modify it and/or adapt it for your own use after a review of your specific program and methods of operation. When you settle on the version that seems best for you, you should ask a lawyer to review your contract before using it with any parents.

Template/Sample Form

Sample Parent-Provider Contract

The contract that follows is a sample, not a model; it may contain provisions that are not appropriate for certain providers, and it may not contain others that your program requires. You should modify it and/or adapt it for your own use after a review of your specific program and methods of operation. When you settle on the version that seems best for you, you should ask a lawyer to review your contract before using it with any parents.

Template/Sample Form

Sample Parent-Provider Contract for Subsidized Care

The contract that follows is a sample, not a model; it may contain provisions that are not appropriate for certain providers, and it may not contain others that your program requires. You should modify it and/or adapt it for your own use after a review of your specific program and methods of operation. When you settle on the version that seems best for you, you should ask a lawyer to review your contract before using it with any parents.

Guide, Spanish

Seguro De Compensacion De Trabajadores Para Negocio De Cuidado De Ninos

Las leyes de compensacion de trabajadores (The Workers’ Compensation Act) dan derecho a los trabajadores a recibir tratamiento medico pronto y efectivo por lesiones debido al trabajo, sin importar quien …

FAQs, Guide

What to Know about the Corporate Transparency Act and Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting

This publication is a reference guide for small businesses and nonprofits on the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”). The CTA is a 2021 law enforced by the United States Department of …

Guide

What You Need to Know About Small Claims Court

In the operation of your child care business, you may encounter problems which force you to go to court. These problems may range from a parent who is not paying you for child care services to a landlord that fails to make necessary repairs in the apartment you are renting.

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Workers’ Compensation Insurance for Family Child Care Businesses

Workers’ Compensation is a set of laws which entitles employees to receive prompt, effective medical treatment for on-the-job injuries and prevents them from suing their employers over those injuries. As a child care provider, you are required by law to obtain workers’ compensation coverage for your employees.

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