Georgia — statewide
Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning
In short
Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning issues 1 permit we publish for Georgia — statewide, last verified 2026-09-03. 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 Learning Centre License | Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning | $50–$250 a year, banded by licensed capacity | the license runs one year and the fee recurs annually | 2026-09-03 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Child Care Learning Centre License
Five bands — $50 up to twenty-five children, then $100, $150, $200 and $250 above two hundred — and that annual fee is the whole cost: the rule creates no separate application fee and no separate renewal fee, and the words application fee appear nowhere in the chapter. A centre is any place taking seven or more children for pay; a family child care learning home, three to six children in a private residence, pays a flat $50. Georgia has only those two categories — the old group day care home was folded into the centre license, so a home programme with seven children is licensed and priced as a centre. Miss the payment date and the department may add a late fee of up to $250, and thirty days after that it must revoke the license.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia — statewide
- Phone
- (404) 656-5957
- Website
- decal.ga.gov/
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.
- Georgia Comp. R. & Regs. chapter 290-2-3 — family child care learning home license feeBright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- Georgia Comp. R. & Regs. rule 591-1-1-.16 — child care learning centre license fees by capacityBright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
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