Terms Used In California Codes > Welfare and Institutions Code > Division 9 > Part 1.8 > Chapter 12 - Family Fees

• Attendance: means the number of children present at a childcare and development facility. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 10213.5
• California state preschool program: means part-day and full-day educational programs for low-income or otherwise disadvantaged three- and four-year-old children. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 10213.5
• Childcare and development services: means those services designed to meet a wide variety of needs of children and their families, while their parents or guardians are working, in training, seeking employment, incapacitated, or in need of respite. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 10213.5
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Cost: includes , but is not limited to, expenditures that are related to the operation of childcare and development programs. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 10213.5
• Family childcare home education network: means an entity organized under law that contracts with the department pursuant to Section 10250 to make payments to licensed family childcare home providers and to provide educational and support services to those providers and to children and families eligible for state-subsidized childcare and development services. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 10213.5
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• full-time care: means care certified for a child for 25 or more hours per week. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 10213.5
• Parent: means a biological parent, stepparent, adoptive parent, foster parent, caretaker relative, or any other adult living with a child who has responsibility for the care and welfare of the child. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 10213.5
• part-time care: means care certified for a child for fewer than 25 hours per week. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 10213.5