Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CLXI - Bulletin 137-Louisiana Early Learning Center Licensing Regulations
Chapter 19 - Minimum Health, Safety, and Environment Requirements and Standards
Section CLXI-1905 - Nighttime Care for Children
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code CLXI-1905
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. All minimum standards for early learning centers apply to centers that care for children after 9 p.m. and prior to 5 a.m., and in which no individual child remains for more than 24 hours in one continuous day.
B. The following minimum standards also apply:
1. there shall be an employee on duty
designated as staff-in-charge;
2.
in addition to meeting all required staff to child ratios in §1711, there shall
always be a minimum of two staff members present;
3. staff counted for purposes of meeting
child to staff ratio shall be awake;
4. meals shall be served to children at
ordinary meal times;
5. time for
personal care routines and preparation for sleep, such as brushing teeth,
washing hands and face, toileting and changing clothes shall be
provided;
6. each child shall have
a separate, age appropriate bed or cot with mat or mattress;
7. bunk beds are prohibited;
8. physical restraints shall not be used to
confine children to bed; and
9. the
centers entrance and drop off zones shall be well lighted during hours of
operation.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:407.40(A)(1).
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