Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Children and Families
DCF 201-252 - Early Care and Education
Chapter DCF 252 - Day Camps For Children
Section DCF 252.07 - Non-discrimination, confidentiality, and reporting child abuse or neglect
Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง DCF 252.07
Current through August 26, 2024
(1) DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.
(a) The licensee
shall ensure that the day camp does not discriminate in employment against
properly qualified individuals in a manner prohibited in ss.
111.31 to
111.395,
Stats.
(b) The licensee shall
ensure that the day camp does not discriminate against any enrolled child and
family or any applicant for enrollment in admission, privilege of enrollment,
or discharge condition on the basis of age, race, color, sex, sexual
orientation, creed, disability, national origin, or ancestry as provided in s.
106.52,
Stats.
(2) CONFIDENTIALITY OF RECORDS.
(a) The licensee
is responsible for the day camp's compliance with s.
48.78,
Stats., and this subsection.
(b)
Persons who have access to children's records may not discuss or disclose
personal or other information about a child or a child's relatives. This
paragraph does not apply to any of the following:
1. The child's parent.
2. Any person, business, school, social
services provider, medical provider, or other agency or organization if written
parental consent has been given.
3.
An agency authorized under s.
48.78,
Stats., to have access to children's records.
(c) If a parent requests a record or report
on the parent's child, the day camp shall make the record or report accessible
to the parent.
(d) All records
required by the department for licensing purposes shall be made available to
licensing representatives upon request.
(3) REPORTING CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT.
(a) A licensee, employee, or volunteer at a
day camp who knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that a child has been
abused or neglected as defined in s.
48.02(1) or (12g), Stats., shall immediately contact the
county department of social services under s.
46.22,
Stats., the county department of human services under 46.23, Stats., the
department in a county with a population of 750,000 or more, or the local law
enforcement agency in compliance with s.
48.981,
Stats.
(b) The licensee shall
ensure that every employee or volunteer who comes in contact with the children
at the day camp has received annual pre-camp training in all of the following:
1. Child abuse and neglect laws;
2. Identification of children who have been
abused or neglected; and
3. The
process for ensuring that known or suspected cases of child abuse or neglect
are immediately reported to the proper authorities.
Failure of the licensee to report known or suspected incidents of child abuse or neglect does not lessen the legal duty of the child care worker to report known or suspected cases of child abuse or neglect.
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