Beyond meeting base licensing standards , the model also integrates several additional program enhancements so users can estimate the additional cost of providing high-quality care . These selections can be used to estimate the cost of meeting different levels of Early Achievers , Washington ' s Quality Rating and Improvement System . Figure 2 highlights the increased costs associated with meeting higher levers of Early Achievers and the P5FS technical report provides additional details of these values .
Figure 2 : Per-child costs of providing child care at licensing , Early Achievers Level 3 and Early Achievers Level 5
The model includes revenue data for the purpose of understanding the sufficiency of current revenue streams to support the cost of quality care . The following revenue data from P5FS ' s report is included , allowing users to compare estimated costs to potential revenue : 32
Child Care Subsidy – federal Child Care and Development Block Grant funding Working Connections Child Care ( WCCC ) subsidy rate data is used for both center and home-based settings , and includes quality differentials for Early Achievers levels . The model uses the most recently implemented market rates as of August 2022 , which are based on the 85th percentile of the 2018 market rate survey . Because the WCCC subsidy regions are different from the Child Care Aware of Washington regions used for the cost analysis , users must select which subsidy region to use for comparing cost to subsidy rates . Users can also choose an Early Achievers level to include the higher WCCC rates for programs that have reached different Early Achievers levels .
32 Ibid .
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