Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 12, December 20, 2024
A. An
early learning center or an entity identified in
§1809 shall request and obtain from the
department a new CCCBC-based determination of eligibility for child care
purposes for each required person:
1. prior
to the person being present or performing services at the center when children
are present; and
2. not less than
once during a five-year period.
B. An early learning center or an entity
identified in
§1809 shall not be required to request
and obtain from the department a new CCCBC-based determination of eligibility
for child care purposes for a required person, and instead shall be able to
request and obtain from the department the persons CCCBC-based determination of
eligibility provided to another in-state child care provider or entity
identified in §1809, if:
1. a child care
provider within the state or an entity requested and obtained a CCCBC-based
determination of eligibility for child care purposes from the department for
the person within the past five years, while the person was seeking employment
or employed by a in-state child care provider or seeking to provide or
providing services at an early learning center in Louisiana for an
entity;
2. the department provided
to the initial requesting child care provider or entity a CCCBC-based
determination indicating the person was eligible for child care purposes;
and
3. the person is still employed
by a child care provider within the state, or is still providing services in an
early learning center within the state for an entity, or has been separated
from a child care provider within the state or an entity for less than 180
consecutive days.
C.
Electronic fingerprints shall be used in parishes where they are
available.
D. Provisional
Employment for Staff Members of Early Learning Centers
1. A center may provisionally employ as a
staff member, a person for whom it has requested a CCCBC-based determination of
eligibility for child care purposes, and for whom the LDOE has received a
satisfactory fingerprint-based Louisiana or federal criminal history
information record, pending the LDOE receipt of the other CCCBC results and
determination of the person's eligibility for child care purposes, or for
someone named in a deficiency for
§1509 of this Part.
2. A provisionally-employed staff member may
be counted in child to staff ratios, but must be monitored at all times in
accordance with the following.
a. A monitor
of a provisionally-employed staff member must be an adult staff member for whom
the center has a CCCBC-based determination of eligibility for child care
purposes within the past five years, who is designated by the center to monitor
a specific provisionally-employed staff member.
b. The center must designate a monitor for
each provisionally-employed staff member present at the center.
c. Repealed.
d. Monitors must supervise at all times their
designated provisionally-employed staff members to be able to intervene at any
time if intervention is needed.
e.
- g. Repealed.
3. The
center shall have a log, either handwritten or in electronic form, or other
written documentation of the monitoring of provisionally-employed staff members
that identifies each provisionally-employed staff member and the designated
monitor for each.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
45 CFR
98.43,
R.S.
15:587.1, and
R.S.
17:407.42.
