There have been pronounced improvements in child day care in New York State during the last decade. One factor driving these developments was the passage of The Quality Child Care and Protection Act of 2000, which mandated pre-licensure and pre-registration inspections for child day care programs as well as stronger training requirements and criminal history checks for prospective child care providers. Another factor was the statewide implementation in 2001 of the Child Care Facility System (CCFS), which is New York State's database of record for regulated child care. Ultimately, however, many of the improvements now in place owe their existence to the enactment of Chapter 750 of the Laws of 1990, which helped to enable all of the improvements in monitoring, accountability and child health and safety protection that were to come, by mandating a consistent system of registration for family day care (FDC) and school age child care (SACC) programs, much as already existed for licensing day care center (DCC) and group family day care (GFDC) programs. Chapter 750 also required annual reporting on the following key indicators of the new system's implementation, which are the focus of this report: 1. the number and types of child care providers registered and licensed; 2. the number and types of orientation sessions offered; 3. the number and types of complaints received and a summary of responses to and resolution of the same, and; 4. the number of registrants and applicants for licensing awaiting inspection or other administrative action. This review examines the year beginning April 1, 2011, and ending March 31, 2012, drawing comparisons both to the preceding year and to the three-year period ending March 31, 2012, based on CCFS data. Unlike prior reviews, this one focuses not just on registered programs (FDC and SACC facilities) -- the segment of the day care universe subject to the 1990 mandate -- but also on licensed programs (DCC and GFDC facilities), in order to satisfy both the reporting mandate for registered programs and the need for a complete and more useful overview of the entire regulated universe of providers in New York State. (author abstract)