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DCYF launches 2025 market-rate and cost-of-quality survey; report due June 1, 2026
Summary
DCYF released the 2025 cost-of-quality and market-rate survey Oct. 1 to gather provider rates and operating costs that will inform child care subsidy base rates; the report is due June 1, 2026, and DCYF aims for about a 50% provider response rate.
The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) deployed its 2025 market-rate and cost-of-quality survey Oct. 1 to collect provider charges and operating-cost data that will inform the state’s child care subsidy base rates.
“Under federal rules, states must conduct a market-rate survey or an alternative method for the Child Care and Development Fund,” Matt Judge, federal initiatives and collaboration administrator, told ELAC. “The legislature put it into law that we base our subsidy base rates on the market rate. The survey we are doing right now gives us the ability to go either way depending on what the legislature tells us.”
Why it matters: the survey’s results will be used to set Working Connections Child Care subsidy base rates that aim to avoid disincentivizing providers from serving subsidized children. DCYF officials said the state has federal approval to adopt an alternative cost-of-quality methodology, but the legislature currently requires rates be set by market-rate results.
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