Child care
Care, protection, and supervision of a child for a period of less than 24 hours a day on a regular basis, which supplements parental care, enrichment, and health supervision for the child, in accordance with his or her individual needs and for which a payment, fee, or grant is made for care.
What is Child Care?
Recreational, educational, and other enrichment programs operated during summer vacations for children who are five years of age or older on or before September 1.
What are Summer Day Camps?
Florida has established this program, which recognizes child care facilities, large family child care homes, and family day care homes that have been accredited by an approved accrediting association
What is Gold Seal Quality Care?
This Act was established to protect individuals with disabilities against discrimination. It requires public entities, public accommodations (such as places of education and care providers), commercial facilities, and employers with 15 or more employees to make reasonable accommodations for individuals. Reasonable accommodations are modifications made to assist an individual with a disability in participating, while at the same time not cause an undue burden.
What is the American with Disabilities Act?
Focuses on the protection of life, property, and the environment.
What is Partnering State Agencies?
Before-school and after-school sites are programs, regardless of location, providing care for children who are at least five years old, and who are enrolled in and attend kindergarten or above.
What is School-Age Child Care?
Operate for less than four hours per day, including any out-of-school times, such as before school, after school, on teacher planning days, holidays, and intercessions that occur during the school district’s official academic calendar year.
What are Open Access Programs?
During the program’s operational hours and the times the children are in care, the program must allow ______________, __________, & __________ access to the program.
Who are parents, guardians, and the licensing authority?
This Act ensures that students with disabilities have access to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) that meets their individual needs through an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) in the least restrictive environment (LRE), which means they will be included in programs as much as possible.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Act?
•Provides a point of contact for background screening results
•Facilities are responsible for the screening of their child care personnel
•Information is reviewed during licensing authority inspections
What is the Department of Children and Families Background Screening Clearinghouse?
•Care of children with short-term illness or symptoms of illness or disability.
What is Specialized Child Care Facilities for the Care of Mildly Ill Children?
Conducted during vacation periods are exempt from licensure. They are usually offered for a week in the summer and focus on a specific religious doctrine and its application to daily life. VBS programs may involve children and youth of all ages.
What are Vacation Bible Schools?
The licensing authority and currently regulates licensed child care facilities, licensed family day care homes, licensed large family child care homes, and licensed mildly ill facilities in most counties in Florida.
What is the Department of Children and Families’ Office of Child Care Regulation?
This Fund provides federal funding and guidelines for child care to help low-income working families have access to quality child care programs.
What is Child Care and Development Fund Reauthorization?
Process child care personnel criminal history records checks—statewide and national—and juvenile checks
What is Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE)?
Child care is an arrangement where families occasionally leave their child for no more than four hours but remain on the premises, such as child care at a shopping mall.
What is Drop-In Child Care
Programs provide child care services solely for the guests of their establishment or resort. All child care personnel must be screened according to the Level 2 screening requirements of Chapter 435, Florida Statutes. Employees of the establishment cannot use this child care arrangement for their own children because it is intended only for use by temporary guests.
What are Transient Programs?
The permanent collection of Florida state laws is found in _____________.
What is the Florida Statutes?
These state rules define the requirements for safety belts and seat belts.
What is Safety Belts and Seat Belt Usage?
Administers the School Readiness and Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) programs
What is the Florida Office of Early Learning?
The beginning and end time of evening child care.
What is 6 pm to 7 am?
Non-custodial in-home care is care provided by a nanny, au pair, babysitter, or relative caregiver for children of the same family, in the children’s own home.
What is Non-Custodial In-Home Care?
A law, rule, ordinance, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
What is a regualtion?
This program ensures all four-year-olds in Florida have access to programs free of charge in order to gain the skills needed so they will be ready to enter school.
What is Voluntary Pre-K Program?
•Zoning and Building Codes (ensure program can legally operate in a specific location and that it has sound structure)
•Septic System (if applicable may affect facility capacity)
•Occupational License (may be required by some counties, cities, and municipalities; this is in addition to a license to operate issued by DCF or the local licensing agency)
•Fire Inspector (conducts the annual fire safety inspection required of all facilities)
•Some counties require family day care homes to be locally licensed
What is Local County Government Agencies?