A pretest of the Vermont model of the Family Assistance Plan to provide statewide day care services for working parents is presented as to summary findings, conclusions, and recommendations. Facilitating factors towards the delivery of quality child care services were the day care licensing procedure, the focus on child development, talented people who developed new ways of doing things at all levels, Vermonters' candor and informality, the use of the Federal Interagency Day Care Requirements, and the newness of the program. Inhibiting factors were that there was no income maintenance pretest, no one in charge, funding insecurity, economic enphasis, unrealistic eligibility requirements and reimbursement rates, separation of planning and operations, the plan was not a plan, inexperience with Federal ralations, no information system, and top-down decisions. Broad problem areas of the operating system were related to the absence of reliable, timely, useful information about almost every subject, as well as dissatisfaction with the decision-making process, and finally to the smoldering issue of developmental versus custodial care. Recommendations relate to definitions, separation of services and resources, State characteristics and basic elements of child care, information, statewide coordination, reimbursement, financial management, child care providers, food, health, and Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C). (DB)