CCR HM Inspector Guide
Child Care Regulation Handbook LPPH
Field Communications (HM Included)
ECHR & TA
Investigations
100

_______ inspections are completed during the 30-day period between HM notification and HM plan approval as known as the HM Plan Development.

What is Pre-Plan HM Inspections?

100

Administrative Penalties 

What is LPPH 7500?

100

This field communication outlines the process of HM Agency Home Closure Recommendation Procedures.

What is HM FC #1 HM Agency Home Closure Recommendation Procedures?

100

The ECHR templet #() can be found on ______

What is 7292 CCR Homepage under Internal Forms?

100

Types of P5 INV

What is Desk Review & Internal INV?

200

Recurring weekly inspections completed after HM plan approval that focused on HM plan tasks and areas that led to HM in the HM Plan Monitoring stage of HM.

What is Plan in Effect HM Inspections?

200

Inspections

What is LPPH 4000?

200

The purpose of this field communication is to notify staff of: 

* Adopted rule changes relating to administrative reviews and due process

* How to evaluate for compliance 

*Notifications that will be sent out to providers; and 

* How to handle questions 

What is FC #376: New Rules Related to Administrative Reviews and Due Process Hearing?

200

ECHR Review Guide & Recording can be found on

What is RCCL Job Aids SharePoint? 

200

The investigator documents a concise summary describing each allegation that the investigator must investigate under the Allegations section on the Investigation Main Page in CLASS.

What is 6312.1 Writing the Allegation?

300

______ is six months' time (at a minimum). During the first three months of PPM, you will complete an unannounced inspection once per month with Contracts. If these initial three months of PPM are successful, months 4-6 do not require visits. 

What is Post Plan Monitoring PPM? 

300

Corrective Action 

What is LPPH 7400?

300

This field communication outlines the new process for CBCU to notify CCR monitoring staff when a risk evaluation decision is issued for specific roles. This process will be effective on January 30, 2023.

What is FC #377: Notification of Risk Evaluation Decisions for Certain Background Check Roles?

300

* Helping the provider identify the problem that let to the deficiency with minimum standards by explaining the purpose

* Understanding how to comply with with the rule by providing a suggestion of how to reach compliance

What is Meaningful TA?

300

An investigator must initiate a P5 asap, but no later than _____ after the day that SWI or CCR office received the intake report.

What is 5 days? LPPH 6412.5

400

* on CLASS Form 2936 Child-Care Facility Inspection

* in a CLASS Chronology (type HM)

* in CLASS HM Plan Detail Page by evaluating task: and 

* in the DFPS HM SharePoint site. 

What is Documenting the Results of all HM Inspections?

400

Waiver and Variances 

What is LPPH 5100?

400

This field communication directed staff to provide technical assistance and give the operation 60 days to hire an administrator when the administrator position became vacant and explained that CCR state office would provide additional guidance on steps CCR staff to take if the administrator position remains vacant past 60 days. The purpose of this field communication is to:

• inform staff that RCCR is changing the weights of 26 TAC §748.151(1)

and §749.151(1), relating to administrator responsibilities; and

• outline all the procedures CCR staff follow when a GRO or CPA does not have a licensed administrator, including when the position remains vacant for more than 60 days.

What is FC #347: Licensed Administrator Vacancy Field Communication?

400

* Full usage of the template is required until the CLASS integration this Summer

* Step taken must fully align with identified risk and patterns

* Mandatory items from the Guide include: ANE findings, ANE allegations (AHs), CP findings, CP allegation (HAs), discovered patterns outside of ANE and CP, your current allegation, and any current CA or HM status.

What is ECHR Reminders?

400

____ to complete a P5. However, the unit expectations are within ____

What is 60-days & 30-45-Days? LPPH 66110

500

* Deficiencies of medium, medium-high or high weighted standards;

*DFPS contracts violations, to include supervision visit outcomes and performance monitoring associated with liquidated damages;

* Third party reviewer, such as Youth for Tomorrow (YFT) findings; and 

*DFPS investigation findings. 

What is "To identify operation with a pattern of contracts or standards violations, the court's definition for HM requires a review of an operation's 5-years compliance history including the number of:"?

500

Background Checks 

What is LPPH 10000?

500

Regulatory Enforcement (RE) is the department of the Regulatory Services Division that is responsible for making impartial and objective enforcement decisions based on the facts CCR staff gather for all regulated providers and credentialed individuals. Child Care Enforcement (CCE) is the unit within RE that focuses on CCR enforcement actions.

What is FC#354: Transfer of Administrative Reviews to Regulatory Enforcement?

500

* CCR staff provide TA as needed to help applicants, permit holders, and operation employees understand and comply with CCR statutes, administrative rules, and M/S

* CCR staff must provide TA for each high-weighted violation.

* TA supplements CCR's regulatory requirement by providing additional information or clarification. TA does not repeat the language as written in the M/S, rule, or statute.

* MH Deficiencies

* Any citation in the operation's trend/pattern area


What is "When to give TA?"

500

The investigator must evaluate an operation's compliance with applicable statute, administrative rules, and minimum standards during each investigation. 

What is Determining Which Minimum Standards to Evaluate? LPPH 6312.2