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Colorado Department of Early Childhood, Division of Early Learning Licensing and Administration

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Colorado Department of Early Childhood, Division of Early Learning Licensing and Administration issues 2 permits we publish for Colorado — statewide, last verified 2026-10-10. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

Issued in Colorado

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Child Care LicenseColorado Department of Early Childhood, Division of Early Learning Licensing and Administration$200 for a centre of five to fifteen children, $175 plus $3 a child to thirty, $300 plus $3 a child above that, capped at $1,800; a family home pays $65 or $100annual — renewal is called a continuation2026-09-03

Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.

Issued in Jefferson County

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Child Care License (state, CDEC) and JCPH Child Care Centre InspectionColorado Department of Early Childhood, Division of Early Learning Licensing and AdministrationNo fee amount is published on CDEC's Child Care Licensing and Administration page or on JCPH's Other Regulated Facilities page; CDEC license applications are completed, submitted and paid online in CDEC's Provider Hub.set by the CDEC license2026-10-10

Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.

About each permit

Child Care LicenseColorado

The same fee is charged for an original application and for each annual continuation, and the middle band is counter-intuitive: a centre for sixteen to thirty children has a lower base than one for five to fifteen, at $175 against $200, because the per-child element takes over. The whole thing caps at $1,800. A family child care home pays $65 for up to six children or $100 for a large home of seven to twelve, and an experienced provider license is also $100. Get the agency right — licensing moved to the new Department of Early Childhood when it was established in 2022, so guidance naming the human services department is stale. Continuation notices go out ninety days before the anniversary date on the license. Fingerprint background checks cost extra and are not in the license fee.

Child Care License (state, CDEC) and JCPH Child Care Centre InspectionJefferson County

A child care centre or family child care home in Jefferson County, Colorado is licensed by the state: the Colorado Department of Early Childhood's Division of Early Learning Licensing and Administration, whose licensing page states that licensing forms, applications and background check applications can be completed, submitted and paid for online in the Provider Hub. Jefferson County Public Health's Other Regulated Facilities page states that Environmental Health Services staff perform routine inspections of child care centres, group homes, treatment facilities and day camps, to establish and enforce sanitary standards for their operation and maintenance. No fee amount is published on either page; contact CDEC for the license fee and JCPH Environmental Health Services (303-232-6301) about the inspection.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Colorado — statewide
Phone
(800) 799-5876

Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.

Sources

Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.

  1. Colorado Department of Early Childhood — child care licensing and its fee scheduleColorado Department of Early Childhood · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
  2. Other Regulated Facilities page (child care and other facility inspections)Jefferson County Public Health · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-10

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