Through our licensing and field based compliance program, our office seeks to promote a child care environment: - that is affordable and accessible to children of all ages;
- where children receive safe, healthy, and developmentally appropriate care;
- where child care providers are of good moral character and encouraged to become career professionals;
- where parents have the information and skills needed to make appropriate child care choices;
- where our office works together with parents, employers, providers, schools, and other community organizations, to accomplish and maintain high quality standards of care. For those wishing to view the Right Start Orientation Video, Click Here
Licensing Programs The Office of the City Clerk licenses all child care providers operating within city limits. In order to gain and maintain a child care license in good standing, a provider must undergo a FBI background check, complete annual approved training in child development and CPR, maintain a two year certification in pediatric first-aid, comply with all health, building, and fire codes, and maintain proper adult-to-child supervision ratio's. Our licenses are divided into three distinct categories: 1 (requires P&Z Administrative Review before applying for a license)
2 (requires Building Occupancy Permit and P&Z Conditional Use Permit before applying for a license) Child care facility operators and child care workers need to apply at the Office of the Boise City Clerk located at City Hall, 150 North Capital Blvd. A completed facility license or worker application plus a fingerprint card1 will be required of all applicants. Correct photo identification and the following fees will also be required at the time of application: New License Fees Child Care Worker....................................$75.25
Child Care Facility (1-6)...........................$100.252
Child Care Facility (7-12).........................$125.252
Child Care Facility (12)............................$150.25 Renewal License Fees Child Care Worker....................................$16.25
Child Care Facility (1-6)...........................$71.252
Child Care Facility (7-12).........................$96.252
Child Care Facility (12)............................$121.25 1Fingerprints will take an average of 60 days to process. Provisional licenses will be issued immediately to child care worker applicants. Provisional license will be issued to child care facility operators upon the completion of all code requirements including a local background check and only if they have proof of Idaho residency going back 5 years from the date of application.
2All residents of a child care home over the age of thirteen (13) will be required to complete a local background check ($10.00 per adult and $5.00 per juvenile) prior to a license being issued. |
| A Child Care Facility is any home or place where non-medical care, protection, and supervision is regularly or periodically provided to children under thirteen (13) years of age, for periods less than twenty-four (24) hours per day, while the parents or guardians are not on the premises. There are three (3) types of child care facilities:
Family Child Care Home - A child care facility that provides care for six (6) or fewer children in a residential building.
Group Child Care Home - A child care facility that provides care for seven (7) to twelve (12) children in a residential building.
Child Care Center - A child care facility which provides care for more than twelve (12) children or uses a non-residential building. Exceptions are:
1. Any arrangement for the care of the niece, nephew, first or second generation cousin, grandchild, brother or sister, son or daughter, related either by blood or marriage to the care provider unless such care is at the same time being provided to unrelated children. When determining the worker/child ratio within a licensed facility, all related and unrelated children under the age of thirteen shall be counted.
2. Any arrangement whereby children receive care in their parents' or guardians' home. |
Referral Services A new GIS supported child care locator is available by going to Child Care Locator. This service is available free to any user and will provide you with a map-based representation of all licensed child care facilities within the City of Boise. Address, Telephone and Facility Type indicators are available by clicking on any individual child care facility found on the map. The Office of the City Clerk keeps digitally imaged files on all licensed child care providers within the City of Boise. These files contain health, fire and field inspection information, as well as, any compliant information (if made and verified) since the provider first opened. All Parents, after making a public records request in writing at the City Clerk's office, can view these files and evaluate providers accordingly. - Our office does not give any kind of recommendation concerning specific providers.
- Our office can provide a list of providers broken out by Zip Code and Facility Type.
- Our office recognizes the Parent as the ultimate authority in choosing child care.
- Our office is open from 8 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Our office does not charge for this service.
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