This progress report evaluates the Day Care Licensing Improvement Project (Jan. 1, 1974 - Dec. 31, 1975) designed by the Michigan Department of Social Services. The four project objectives are reported on. Projects dealt with developing and improving licensing procedures through public education and by training licensing consultants in order to upgrade the level of care in family day care homes and day care centers, and evaluating the registration process, a variant to the licensing of family day care homes. The document contains the interim report of the Demonstration Project for the Registration of Family Day Care Homes and the Staff Resource Library Bibliography, an outgrowth of the licensing training program. The interim report deals with the historic development of day care and day care regulation; registration, overview, process and significance; development, training and planning to study registration as possibly a more appropriate type of regulatory process than the licensing method; methods of comparing licensing and registration; findings and recommendations. Data tools are appendixed. (BF)