Illinois Administrative Code
Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Part 403 - LICENSING STANDARDS FOR GROUP HOMES
Section 403.21 - Staff Coverage
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) A group home shall employ at least 2 full-time child care staff who shall meet the requirements for child care staff enumerated in Section 403.18. The ratio of child care staff to children may include other staff if they meet the qualifications of child care staff as prescribed in Section 403.18. The group home or supervising agency shall ensure that groupings and supervision of children provides for individual attention and consideration of each child. Child care staff shall provide supervision to children at all times. The group home shall assign one or more child care workers for direct supervision of each group to be on duty and readily available while the children are awake and on the premises. Girls shall be under the direct supervision of adult female staff while they are in their bedroom, bathroom, or other areas of the home where privacy is expected. The following staffing patterns shall be followed:
b) During the absence of regular child care personnel for time off, vacations, sick leave or any other absence (such as attendance at conferences or meetings, etc.), substitute child care personnel must be provided. These substitutes shall meet the requirements of child care staff as specified in Section 403.18.
c) The group home shall have present on site at least one child care staff person or administrator who, with respect to any child placed at the group home, is designated to be the caregiver who is authorized to apply the reasonable and prudent parent standard to decisions involving the participation of the child in age or developmentally appropriate activities, and who is provided with the training in how to use and apply the reasonable and prudent parent standard in the same manner as foster parents. This training will include a detailed explanation of the reasonable and prudent parent standard and examples of how caregivers can apply this standard in specific situations. (See 42 USC 671(10) and (24).)
d) The caregiver must seek consent in other areas in which specific State or federal laws limit consent authorization. Some examples of when normalcy parenting does not apply include consent to medical and dental care and disclosure of mental health information.