The Office of Child Care’s (OCC) National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance has launched an updated Provider Cost of Quality Calculator (PCQC).
The updated PCQC features the following improvements:
- Streamlined design, making it easier to enter data
- Cost-per-child output
- Separate shells for family child care (FCC) homes and centers
- Reports being easier to generate and read
- Users able to try the PCQC without registering.
The PCQC helps users estimate the annual costs and revenue of operating a child care center or an FCC home-based program at different quality levels. This information can help owners and operators better understand the factors that influence costs and revenue. It also can aid child care administrators and the early care and education policy community in designing financial supports.
What will happen to the “legacy” PCQC? Users will have access to it through this PCQC login page through Dec. 30, 2022. Legacy PCQC users will receive a series of emails telling them about the updated PCQC and encouraging them to save and export their legacy PCQC scenarios by Dec. 30, 2022. After Dec. 30, legacy PCQC users will lose access to their scenarios in the legacy PCQC.
Explore the updated PCQC and the new resources on the PCQC landing page.
For more information on how to save the scenarios that you have loaded in the legacy PCQC and how to transfer them to the updated PCQC, check out the Tipsheet: Transferring Scenarios from Legacy to Updated Provider Cost of Quality Calculator.