Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) Part day child care facilities are
required to provide written notification to the Department of their operation.
The written notification shall include the following:
1) The name of the church, religious
organization or social service agency responsible for the facility;
2) A copy of the trust instrument,
certificate and articles of incorporation, articles of association, or other
written instrument establishing the church, religious organization or social
service agency;
3) The address at
which the part day child care facility operates or intends to
operate;
4) The name, address and
telephone number of the person or persons responsible for on-site supervision
of the program;
5) The usual days
and hours that the part day child care facility operates or intends to operate;
and
6) A notarized statement that
A) the facility complies with the standards
of the Illinois Department of Public Health (77 Ill. Adm. Code 750) or the
local health department;
B) the
facility complies with the fire safety standards of the Illinois State Fire
Marshal (41 Ill. Adm. Code 100). (Part day child care facilities operated in
public school buildings may satisfy this requirement with a notarized statement
that the facility meets the health and safety standards of the Illinois State
Board of Education - SBE Rule 201, Building Specifications for Health and
Safety in Public Schools (23 Ill. Adm. Code 185);
C) the facility does not provide care for any
child for more than eight hours in any given day;
D) no child is provided care for more than 10
hours in a 7 day week; and
E) the
facility provides at least one caregiver per 20 children.
b) The church, religious
organization or social service agency responsible for a continuing part day
child care facility shall re-notify the Department, in writing, of its
operation within two years of its original or last notification, and within
thirty (30) days of a change in the information required by this
Section.
c) A church, religious
organization or social service agency operating more than one program shall
provide the Department a separate, written notification for each site from
which a part day child care facility is operated under its
sponsorship.
d) A part day child
care facility which operates more than10hours per7 dayweek or charges fees is
required to maintain a written record on each child which shall include the
name(s) of the child's parent(s); the telephone number(s) at which the
parent(s) can be reached during the hours the child is at the facility; and the
number of hours each child is served (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 23, par.
2212.10 ).
1) The facility staff shall refuse
to release a child to any person, whether related or unrelated to the child,
who has not been authorized, in writing, by the parent(s) or guardian to
receive the child. Persons not known to the facility staff shall be required to
provide a driver's license (with photo) or photo identification card issued by
the Illinois Secretary of State to establish their identity prior to a child's
release to them.
2) The facility
shall maintain a list of persons designated, in writing, by the parent(s) or
guardian to whom the facility can be expected to discharge the child at least
once per week. These persons, in addition to the parent(s) or guardian, shall
constitute the primary list of persons to whom the child may be released. In
addition, the facility shall maintain a contingency list of persons designated,
in writing, by the parent(s) or guardian to whom the child may be released less
frequently than once per week. When the child is released to a person on the
contingency list, the facility shall maintain a record of the person to whom
the child was released, and the manner that the child left the facility
(whether on foot, by passenger car, by taxicab or other means of
transportation.)
e)
Records required by this Section may be examined by the Department or its
authorized agent to verify compliance with this Part, and shall be retained by
the facility for 3 years.