Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Children and Families
DCF 1-20 - General
Chapter DCF 13 - Background Checks For Child Care Programs
Section DCF 13.08 - Sanctions
Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง DCF 13.08
Current through August 26, 2024
(1) CHILD CARE PROGRAM.
(a) A child care program that does any of the
following may be subject to one or more of the sanctions specified in par. (b)
by the department or the agency that granted the regulatory approval:
1. Allows a person who has not received
preliminary determination of eligibility to begin work or reside at the child
care program in violation of s.
DCF 13.06(1).
2. Allows a person who has not received a
final determination of eligibility to work or reside at a child care program
without direct supervision in violation of s.
DCF 13.06(2).
3. Hires, employs, or contracts with a person
that the department determined was ineligible to be a caregiver or noncaregiver
employee in the child care program.
3m. Permits a person that the department
determined was ineligible to be a household member in the child care
program.
4. Fails to submit a
background check request as required under s.
48.686(2)
(ab), Stats., and s.
DCF 13.03.
5.
Knows, or should know, that a caregiver, noncaregiver employee, or household
member at the child care program committed an act barred under s.
48.686(4m) (a) 6, 7., or 8., Stats., including knowingly
giving false information on or knowingly omitting material information relating
to the child care background check.
6. Fails to comply with applicable reporting
requirements under s.
DCF 13.07(1) or
(2).
7. Fails to have a policy on reporting
changes as required in s.
DCF 13.07(3).
8. Violates any provision in s.
48.686,
Stats., or this chapter regarding caregivers, noncaregiver employees, or
household members.
(b)
Any of the following sanctions may be imposed on a child care program that
commits any of the acts described in par. (a) :
1. Suspension, nonrenewal, denial, or
revocation of regulatory approval.
2. Specific conditions or limitations placed
on the regulatory approval.
3. A
forfeiture of not more than $1,000.
4. A requirement that the child care program
develop a written plan that specifies corrections that will be made to
personnel screening practices, obtain agency approval of the correction plan,
and implement the correction plan.
(2) APPLICANT. An applicant for regulatory approval who does any of the following is subject to denial of an application for regulatory approval:
(a) Fails to complete
and submit the background check request required under s.
DCF 13.03.
(b)
Knowingly provides false information on or knowingly omits information from the
background check request form.
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