Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 5 - DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Division 25 - Office of Childhood
Chapter 600 - Child Care Comprehensive Background Screening
Section 5 CSR 25-600.040 - Background Screening Findings
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment replaces the phrase "family child care home, group child care home, child care center, or license-exempt" with "licensed, regulated, or registered child care," expanding the provisions of this rule to registered child care facilities. This amendment also specifies that the ineligibility to maintain a presence at family child care homes is only during child care hours and includes minors certified as adults in the commission of an offense, consistent with section 210.1080.5, RSMo.
(1) Any child care staff member or prospective child care staff member shall be ineligible for employment or presence at a licensed, regulated, or registered child care facility not exempted by section 210.1080.13, RSMo, if such person-
(2) Adult household members eighteen (18) years of age and older, or household members who are under eighteen (18) years of age but have been certified as an adult for the commission of an offense, in a family child care home shall be ineligible to maintain a presence at a family child care home during child care hours if any one (1) or more of the provisions of section (1) of this rule applies to them.