A bill to amend title XX of the Social Security Act to increase the amount available for social services block grants in order to promote economic self-support and self-sufficiency among individuals and families, to ensure families greater access to affordable quality child care, to prevent child abuse and neglect through the provision of additional protective services, to provide community-based or home-based services to the elderly and disabled as an alternative to institutionalization, and to make other changes designed to improve the administration and effectiveness of the social services program.
Social Services and Child Care Assistance Act of 1985 - Amends title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act to set allotment amounts for FY 1984, 1985, and 1986 and each succeeding fiscal year.
Allocates, from the allotment set for FY 1986 and available for any fiscal year, specified amounts for: (1) funding for a National Resource Center on Family Day Care; (2) grants to States which fulfill certain conditions with respect to the licensing, regulation, and monitoring of child care services; and (3) the provision of services in accordance with title XX. Specifies further, that of the amounts allotted for the provision of services, specified amounts shall be used: (1) for the training and retraining of human services personnel; (2) for the training and retraining in the prevention of child abuse of licensed child care operators; and (3) for the provision of child day care services to children who are abused or neglected, who are members of families receiving aid under title IV (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of such Act, or children who are members of specified low-income groups.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Referred to Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation.
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