Licensing Standards for DayCare Centers

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7 AAC 50.460
NUTRITION

(a) A facility shall ensure that all snacks and meals meet the child care food program requirements set out in 7 C.F.R. 226.20, revised as of January 1, 1995.

(b) [C] In a child care center menus, including snacks, must be planned in advance, be posted in an area open to visitors, and reflect actual food served.

(c) In a child care facility, food for a child's meals and snacks may be provided by the parent.

(d) A child care facility providing care for infants shall observe the following requirements for bottle feedings:

(1) bottle feedings may be prepared by the parent or the facility; however, if the facility prepares the bottle feedings, it shall consult with the parent to ensure consistency with the bottle feedings given at home;

(2) an infant must be fed on demand;

(3) a child on bottle feedings

(A) must either be held or fed sitting up or, if unable to sit up, always be held by a caregiver during the feeding; and

(B) may not be permitted to hold or carry its bottle at times other than the feeding; and

(4) bottles may not be propped for a child.

(g) Except for medical reasons, a facility may not deny a meal or snack to a child, force-feed a child, or otherwise coerce a child to eat against the child's will for any reason. Mere encouragement to eat without any element of compulsion is not prohibited.(Eff. 1/1/96, Register 136; am 3/1/98, Register 145)

Authority: AS 44.29.020 AS 47.35.010

Editor's note: A copy of the child care food program requirements referred to in 7 AAC 50.460(a) may be obtained from the division of family and youth services, P. O. Box 110630, 350 Main Street, Room 404, Juneau, Alaska 99811-0630, or any other office of the division.

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