Milwaukee County does not license home daycare. Wisconsin's Department of Children and Families licenses providers caring for four or more children under seven, and certifies smaller family providers; your municipality handles any zoning.
Home child care is regulated by the state, not Milwaukee County. Under Wis. Stat. 48.65, no person may for compensation care for four or more children under age seven for less than 24 hours a day without a family child care center license from the Department of Children and Families (DCF), issued under Wis. Admin. Code ch. DCF 250. Providers caring for one to three unrelated children under seven may instead be certified under ch. DCF 202, a voluntary form of regulation. Beyond state licensing, your city or village zoning ordinance controls whether and where a home daycare may operate and may require a home-occupation permit. Milwaukee County itself neither licenses nor zones home daycares.
Providing unlicensed care above the threshold exposes a provider to DCF enforcement, forfeitures, closure orders, and potential criminal referral under Wisconsin child care law.
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