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DA Form 5226-R handles one job: child development services (cds) sponsor/program agreement (lra). The official title is CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICE (CDS) SPONSOR/PROGRAM AGREEMENT. Download it below, fill it in, sign it, send it where your directive says. The edition on this page is July 1989, status not stated, running 2 page(s) with about 200 fields to complete.
Two references decide everything about your use of it: DCS,G-1 maintains the content, AR 608-10 sets the trigger and the routing. Consult the directive when your case is not routine; otherwise the printed blocks tell you enough. The person named in the entries fills it, or the administrative office holding the file does it for them.
The formats are PDF, XFDL, and the choice comes down to keyboard or pen. Fillable pdf for typing — live fields, tab order, saved entries. Printable pdf for handwriting — same page, no interactive objects, print it blank. Content is identical; only entry method differs.
Use a full pdf reader, not the browser viewer. Browser viewers display fields they cannot always save, and the loss shows up only when you reopen the file — type one entry, save, reopen, verify, then fill the rest. The xfdl file is IBM Lotus Forms, used inside Army systems, and opens in the Lotus Forms Viewer alone — no pdf reader, no word processor.
No charge, no account, no email address. The file is the published document, distributed unaltered.
What the form asks for
- CDS_DATE
- CHILD_ABUSE
- ContentArea1
- ContentArea2
- ENROLL1
- ENROLL2
- FCCHOME
- FEESPAID
- FEE_PER
- FRI1FR
- FRI1TO
- FRI2FR
- FRI2TO
- FULLDAY
- HOURLY
- IN1
- IN2
- INFANT
- LAUNDERING
- LOCATED
- MEDICAT
- MISC_FEES
- MON1FR
- MON1TO
The heading entries carry more weight than the body. Name spelled as in official records, identification number, organisation, date prepared. Retrieval runs on those values, so a transposed digit or a casual spelling costs someone a file search. Fill them before anything else.
Move between fields with tab; the build-time order follows the page and misses nothing. Click check boxes and option buttons, and expect an exclusive group to release the old choice when you set a new one. The trap is field width. Single-line fields do not wrap, so an overlong entry displays complete on screen and prints cut at the margin — put it in remarks or on a continuation instead. Mark inapplicable fields rather than leaving them blank, since an empty box carries no information about whether the question was read.
Signature comes after every other entry — ink or an approved electronic means, and without it the document is a draft. Where reviewing, approving or witnessing signatures are called for, take them in printed block order, each dated on the day applied. Before release, one pass from the top. The defects worth hunting are always the same four: mandatory fields left empty, identification digits transposed, dates with day and month reversed, and stale data surviving in a copy reused in place of a blank form.
Read the Privacy Act statement at the point it appears. Authority, purpose, routine uses, mandatory or voluntary — four facts, and they govern what you are about to enter. A completed copy holds personal data and takes the handling rules that attach to it.
Routing follows AR 608-10 and nothing else — a named office, the unit administrative channel, or the individual's file, according to why the form was raised. Copy it before it leaves. Retention is fixed by the records schedule for the series, which local practice does not shorten or extend.
Related forms are found by series and number. DA series documents under the same proponent or the same prescribing directive are commonly required as a set, and any form named on the face of this one goes forward with it. Assemble continuations, covers and transmittals before submitting, not after the query comes back.
Check the edition date before reusing a saved copy. Revisions come from the proponent without notice to you, and the printed date is the only version marker on the page. Already-submitted records under a superseded edition stand as filed; the change does not run backwards.
These are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents, offered for download. The site is independent, connected to nothing official, and issues no forms of its own. Nothing here is legal advice and no statement is made about acceptance by any office. Questions about an entry, a requirement or eligibility go to DCS,G-1 or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 5226-R?
- CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICE (CDS) SPONSOR/PROGRAM AGREEMENT
- Which edition is current?
- July 1989
- Who is responsible for this form?
- DCS,G-1
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL