Licensing Standards for DayCare Centers
7 AAC 50.120
FACILITY OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT
(a) [C] A child care center shall adopt personnel policies that are given to
employees at the time they start work and that include, as applicable,
- (1) personnel qualifications;
- (2) the job description applicable to the employee;
- (3) procedures for annual evaluation ; and
(b) [Emp & Vol] A facility with one or more employees shall either directly
or by delegation to the administrator
- (1) provide for screening, scheduling, and supervising of all employees,
volunteers, and others who provide services in the facility;
- (2) remove an employee or volunteer from contact with children when there
is reason to believe that the employee or volunteer has physically or sexually
abused a child or furnished a child with alcohol or a controlled substance;
and
- (3) ensure that an employee's or volunteer's ability to perform assigned
duties is not impaired by alcohol or controlled substances while in contact
with children or while performing other job responsibilities.
(c) [Emp & Vol] If the division requests a facility to remove an employee
or volunteer from contact with children on the grounds set out in(b)(2) and(b)(3)
of this section, the division will inform the employee or volunteer of the grounds
for removal and provide the employee or volunteer with an opportunity to bring
to the division's attention any facts that the employee or volunteer believes
pertinent to the matter. The division will excuse or delay notification to the
employee or volunteer if the division determines, in its discretion, that notification
may put children at risk of harm or compromise a police investigation. The division
will not provide the employee or volunteer with any information that is confidential
under law or that may put children at risk of harm or compromise a police investigation.
(d) [C] A child care center shall adopt and compile facility policies, procedures,
program descriptions, and forms, as applicable, into an operational manual that
must be made available to employees and volunteers and to the licensing representative
upon request.
(e) A facility's practices must conform to statutes, this chapter, and its
policies.(Eff. 1/1/96, Register 136; am 3/1/98, Register 145)
Authority: AS 44.29.020 AS 47.35.010
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