A home daycare in Spartanburg County is a 'family childcare home' under S.C. Code 63-13-20 - a residence caring for no more than six children (including the caregiver's own and related children). These homes must register with the SC Department of Social Services (DSS).
S.C. Code §63-13-20 defines a family childcare home as a facility within a residence occupied by the operator where childcare is regularly provided for no more than six children, unattended by a parent, counting the caregiver's own children living in the home and related children received for care. Caring only for one's own relatives, or only the children of one unrelated family, does not make a home a regulated family childcare home. Family childcare homes must register with DSS, meet health, safety, and caregiver-background requirements, and follow ratio limits. Larger operations become 'group childcare homes' or 'childcare centers' with licensing. County ULMO home-occupation zoning (§3.06) can also apply to a home daycare in the unincorporated county.
Operating a family childcare home without DSS registration, or exceeding the six-child limit, violates the Children's Code and can bring DSS enforcement, fines, and orders to cease operating until the home is properly registered or licensed.
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