Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 39, September 26, 2024
(a)
Statistical reporting. Each licensee shall prepare the following reports:
(1) An annual report of the child-placement
agency's activities, including fiscal and statistical sections indicating the
levels of income and expenditures, the staffing level, and the number of
children and families served by each service program of the child-placement
agency; and
(2) when requested by
the department, statistical data for public information, research, or planning
purposes.
(b) Critical
incidents.
(1) Each licensee shall report each
of the following critical incidents to the department and to the child's
child-placing agent within 24 hours of discovery:
(A) Any damage to the child-placement agency
building or damage to the property that affects the structure of the building
or the safety of children and families receiving services from the
child-placement agency;
(B) any
damage to a licensed family foster home or home sponsored or approved by the
child-placement agency that affects the structure of the home or the safety of
a child receiving services from the child-placement agency;
(C) the death of any child receiving services
from the child-placement agency;
(D) any injury to a child that is potentially
life-threatening or has the potential for a long-term disability; and
(E) the death of any resident of the licensed
family foster home or child-placement agency-approved family foster
home.
(2) Each licensee
shall submit a written critical incident report specified in paragraph (b)(1)
to the department and the child's child-placing agent within 24 hours of
discovery. This report shall contain the following information:
(A) Name of licensed family foster
home;
(B) child's name and birth
date;
(C) date and time of the
incident;
(D) factual summary of
the incident, including the name of each individual involved;
(E) factual summary of the immediate action
taken, including the name of each individual involved;
(F) signature of the licensee; and
(G) date of the report.
(c) Abuse or neglect. Each
licensee shall report any suspected neglect, physical, mental, or emotional
abuse, or sexual abuse of a child within 24 hours of discovery, by telephone or
in writing, to the secretary of the Kansas department of children and families
and when the department is not open for business, reports shall be made to the
appropriate law enforcement agency.
(d) Infectious and contagious disease. If a
licensee or a staff member contracts a reportable infectious or contagious
disease specified in
K.A.R.
28-1-2, the licensee shall report the disease
to the county health department by the next business day. The licensee shall
follow the protocol recommended by the county health department and shall
cooperate fully with any investigation, disease control, or surveillance
procedures initiated by the county health department.
