Reprinted are licensing standards for day care homes adopted and codified, effective July 1983, by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and as amended, effective January and March 1985. Sections of the report concern the purpose, definitions of terms, effective date of standards, application for license, application for renewal of license, provisions pertaining to permits, general requirements for day care homes, characteristics and qualifications of the day care family, qualifications for assistants, substitutes, admission and discharge procedures, number of children served, health and medical care, discipline of children, activity requirements, nutrition and meals, transportation of children by day care home, swimming, children with special needs, school age children, infants and toddlers, night care, records and reports, confidentiality of records and information, cooperation with the Department of Children and Family Services, and severability of this part (Part 406 of the Requirements for Licensure). Appendices provide meal pattern charts for children 0 to 12 months of age and for children over 1 year of age. (RH)