Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 4 - Children's Services and Juvenile Justice
Chapter 50 - Community Care Licensing
Article 5 - Care and Services
7 AAC 50.410 - Supervision of children; child-to-caregiver ratios in residential child care facilities
Universal Citation: 7 AK Admin Code 50.410
Current through August 30, 2024
(a) A caregiver shall be on duty in a residential child care facility whenever one or more children are present.
(b) Except as provided in (c) of this section, the caregiver-to-child ratio in a facility must be as follows:
(1) one caregiver for every six
children during any time children are awake and engaged in activity outside
their sleeping quarters; and
(2)
one caregiver for every 12 children during sleeping hours.
(c) The caregiver-to-child ratio when there are infants or toddlers in care must be one caregiver for every
(1) three infants and toddlers in care during
waking hours; and
(2) five infants
and toddlers in care during sleeping hours.
(d) The administrator may be counted as a caregiver for the purposes of (b) and (c) of this section only if the facility serves 12 or fewer children.
Authority:AS 44.29.020
AS 47.35.010
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