This report describes the first Public Policy Seminar, sponsored by the Black Child Development Institute in the summer of 1972. The seminar was designed to provide the opportunity for information-sharing, awareness of federal policy making, and a channel for minorities involved in child development at the community level to exert pressure and provide input in decision-making at the national level. The representatives of organizations involved in community-based, community-controlled black child development centers, and the black professionals from related fields taking part in the seminar, discussed the issues relating to early child development and education raised by the child care provisions of HR-1, the Federal Requirements for Day Care, the Child Development Associates Program, and the Head Start Enrichment Program. The booklet contains an overview of federal legislation relating to child care and the participants' recommendations to the Acting Director of the Office of the Child Deve1opment. (CS)