Palm Beach County
Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, sitting as the Child Care Facilities Board (delegated to the Child Care Advisory Council, staffed by Florida DOH-Palm Beach)
In short
Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, sitting as the Child Care Facilities Board (delegated to the Child Care Advisory Council, staffed by Florida DOH-Palm Beach) issues 2 permits we publish for Palm Beach 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 License | Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, sitting as the Child Care Facilities Board (delegated to the Child Care Advisory Council, staffed by Florida DOH-Palm Beach) | License and inspection fees are set administratively under the Child Care Facilities Board/Child Care Advisory Council framework rather than published as a fixed dollar figure in the enabling authority. | annual, with a fire marshal pre-opening inspection and generally an annual re-inspection for renewal | 2026-09-28 |
| Family / Large Family Child Care Home License | Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, sitting as the Child Care Facilities Board (delegated to the Child Care Advisory Council, staffed by Florida DOH-Palm Beach) | Priced and administered separately from the Child Care Facility License but under the same Child Care Facilities Board/CCAC framework; fees are set administratively rather than published as a fixed dollar figure on DOH-Palm Beach's child care licensing page. | annual, with a pre-opening inspection and generally an annual re-inspection for renewal | 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 License
Palm Beach County is one of five Florida counties — with Broward, Hillsborough, Pinellas and Sarasota — that elected under §402.306, Fla. Stat., to license child care facilities locally instead of through the state Department of Children and Families. Locally, the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners sits as the 'Child Care Facilities Board,' which delegates approval, denial and revocation authority to a seven-member Child Care Advisory Council (CCAC). The CCAC is staffed by the Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County (DOH-Palm Beach), which handles day-to-day licensing administration, inspections and renewal. Any child care facility in the county needs this license, a fire marshal inspection before opening, and generally an annual re-inspection to renew. The exact current license fee is not published on DOH-Palm Beach's child care licensing page; confirm it directly with DOH-Palm Beach.
Family / Large Family Child Care Home License
Home-based child care in Palm Beach County — a Family Child Care Home or Large Family Child Care Home — is licensed on a distinct track from a standalone Child Care Facility, confirmed by a dedicated FCCH renewal form the Department of Health publishes separately from the facility renewal form. It runs under the same countywide self-licensing framework as the Child Care Facility License: the Board of County Commissioners sitting as the Child Care Facilities Board, delegating to the seven-member Child Care Advisory Council staffed by DOH-Palm Beach. A person caring for children in their own home above the small-group licensing threshold must hold this license before operating, and it is subject to a pre-opening inspection and periodic renewal. The exact current license fee is not published on DOH-Palm Beach's child care licensing page; confirm it directly with DOH-Palm Beach.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Palm Beach 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.
- Child care licensing — Child Care Facilities Board / Child Care Advisory Council frameworkFlorida Department of Health in Palm Beach County · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
Other offices serving Palm Beach County
- Palm Beach County Constitutional Tax Collector, Local Business Tax Section
- Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department, Zoning Division
- Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department, Building Division
- Palm Beach County Public Safety Department, Animal Care and Control Division
- Palm Beach County Environmental Resources Management
- Palm Beach County Construction Industry Licensing Board, Contractors Certification Division
- Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, Community Risk Reduction Division
- Palm Beach County Public Safety Department, Consumer Affairs Division
- Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department
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