New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 18 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter II - Regulations of the Department of Social Services
Subchapter C - Social Services
Article 3 - Child-care Agencies
Part 447 - Agency Boarding Homes
Section 447.1 - Conditions of operations of an agency boarding home program
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
An authorized private child-caring agency, or a social services official who has been authorized by the department to provide agency boarding home care, may operate an agency boarding home program only after obtaining an operating certificate for such program. An operating certificate will be issued by the department only when the conditions of this Part and Parts 476 and 477 of this Title are met.
(a) A professionally trained social worker, a person with experience in child welfare, or a person holding a master's degree in a related field who is in the employ of the agency shall supervise the agency boarding home.
(b) The person designated to supervise the program shall make the determination as to the children to be placed in each agency boarding home, or such determination may be made by an interdisciplinary team when it is the general practice of the agency to use such services.
(c) The agency or social services official must establish a procedure to obtain background and other information, in accordance with this Part, on each applicant for employment or to be a volunteer or consultant and to evaluate each such applicant as to his/her personal, employment and experience qualifications in accordance with the requirements of this Part.
(d) The agency or social services official must establish a procedure to inquire of the department, in accordance with the provisions of section 447.2(c) of this Part, whether certain persons who have or will have the potential for regular and substantial contact with children being cared for in the agency boarding home are the subjects of indicated reports of child abuse or maltreatment on file with the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment.
(e) The provisions of this section shall apply to renewals as well as to the initiation of an agency boarding home program.
