Nassau County Department of Social Services

Child Care Licensing — State License Applies (Nassau County)

The New York State Office of Children and Family Services licenses and registers child day care programs; its provider page states that, as a general rule, a program serving three or more children for more than three hours a day on a regular basis must obtain a license or registration. The Department of Consumer Affairs' Licensing & Registrations page lists no childcare category, so there is no county childcare license fee. The county's own Day Care page describes the Nassau County Department of Social Services, at 60 Charles Lindbergh Blvd, Suite 160, Uniondale, as taking childcare subsidy applications through its Day Care New Applications unit, and directs anyone wanting resource-and-referral information or a list of day care providers to a nonprofit, the Child Care Council of Nassau County. A licensed day care center serving its own enrolled children in-house also needs no separate Food Service Establishment permit from the county, under the categorical exemption recorded separately for Nassau County — the permit only attaches if a third-party caterer runs the center's food service instead of center staff.