Kentucky — statewide
Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Division of Regulated Child Care
In short
Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Division of Regulated Child Care issues 1 permit we publish for Kentucky — 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 Centre License | Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Division of Regulated Child Care | $50 to open; renewal is $25 a year | annual for a centre; a certified family child-care home renews every two years at $10 | 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 Centre License
Fifty dollars to open a licensed child-care centre and $25 to renew, every year — modest fees, but the initial approval is deliberately provisional: a new license issues first as a preliminary license lasting up to six months before converting to a regular one-year license. A certified family child-care home is a different and much cheaper category, at $10 to certify and $10 to renew every two years rather than annually. A corporate or LLC applicant must attach a current certificate of existence from the Secretary of State to either application.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky — statewide
- 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.
- 922 KAR 2:090 — child-care centre licensing fees, effective 13 February 2025Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
- 922 KAR 2:100 — certified family child-care home fees, effective 14 March 2024Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-03
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