Orange County
Florida Department of Children and Families, Office of Child Care Regulation
In short
Florida Department of Children and Families, Office of Child Care Regulation issues 1 permit we publish for Orange County, last verified 2026-09-28. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child Care Facility Licensing — State DCF License Applies (Orange County, FL)only if it applies to you | Florida Department of Children and Families, Office of Child Care Regulation | No fee | not applicable at the county level; state DCF license terms apply instead | 2026-09-28 |
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 Facility Licensing — State DCF License Applies (Orange County, FL)
Orange County charges no fee for this license, which is issued by the state. Florida DCF's current 'About Child Care Licensure' page states that DCF licensing staff inspect and license child-care facilities and homes in 63 of Florida's 67 counties, and names the four counties that have elected to license child care themselves under Fla. Stat. §402.306 as Broward, Palm Beach, Pinellas and Sarasota; Orange County is not among them. Childcare facilities in Orange County, including inside Orlando, are therefore licensed directly by the state DCF, not by an Orange County agency. The only county-level layers that still reach a childcare facility are the ordinary ones that apply to any commercial business: the countywide Local Business Tax Receipt, and, for a location in unincorporated Orange County, the Use Permit and any applicable building permit. Beyond those general-purpose layers, the childcare license itself is the state DCF license described above.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Orange County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
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.
- About Child Care Licensure — current list of counties with their own local licensing agency under Fla. Stat. §402.306Florida Department of Children and Families · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
Other offices serving Orange County
- Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation
- Orange County Fire Rescue, Office of the Fire Marshal
- Orange County Zoning Division
- Orange County Division of Building Safety, Permitting Services
- Orange County Animal Services
- Orange County Environmental Protection Division
- Orange County Tax Collector, Business Tax Section
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