Section 101218.1
ADMISSION PROCEDURES
(a) In accordance with the child care center's individual program, policies
and needs, the licensee shall develop, implement and maintain an admission procedure
that enables the person in charge of admissions to:
- (1) Determine that the child meets the center's admission criteria.
- (2) Conduct one or more personal interviews with the child's authorized
representative that meet the following requirements:
- (A) Enable the person responsible for admissions to understand the
state of the child's health and physical and emotional development, and
to assess whether the center can meet the child's needs.
- (B) Provide the child's authorized representative with information
about the center that shall at least include the center's admission policies
and procedures, activities, services, regulations, hours and days of operation,
fees, procedures to be followed should the child become ill or injured
while at the center, and procedures for conducting inspections for illness.
- (3) Obtain all identifying information specified in Section 101221(b).
- (4) Obtain all health information specified in Section 101220.
(b) The center shall inform each child's authorized representative of his/her
right to enter and inspect the center in accordance with Health and Safety Code
Section 1596.857.
- HANDBOOK BEGINS HERE
- Health and-Safety Code Section 1596.857 provides:
- (a) Upon presentation of identification, the responsible parent
or guardian of a child receiving services in a child day care
facility has the right to enter and inspect the facility without advance
notice during the normal operating hours of the facility. Parents or guardians
when inspecting shall be respectful of the children's routines and programmed
activities. The facility shall inform parents and guardians of children
receiving services in the facility of the right of the parents and guardians
to inspect the facility pursuant to this section.
- (b) No child day care facility shall discriminate or retaliate against
any child or parent or guardian on the basis or for the reason that the
parent or guardian has exercised his or her right under this section to
inspect the facility or has lodged a complaint with the department against
a facility.
- (c) If any child day care facility denies a parent or legal guardian
the right to enter and inspect a facility or retaliates, the department
shall issue the facility a warning citation. For any subsequent violation
of this right, the department may impose a civil penalty upon the facility
of fifty dollars ($50) per violation. The department may take any appropriate
action, including licenses revocation.
- (d) Each child day care facility shall permanently post in a facility
location accessible to parents and guardians written notice of the right
to make an inspection pursuant to this section and the prohibition
against retaliation and the right to file a complaint.
- (e) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, the person
present who is in charge of a child day care facility may deny access
to an adult whose behavior presents a risk to children present in the
facility and may deny access to non-custodial parents or guardians if
so requested by the responsible parent or legal guardian.
- HANDBOOK ENDS HERE
- (1) The center shall give each authorized representative a copy of the
Notification of Parents' Rights (LIC 995 [7/97]).
- (A) Each authorized representative shall be asked to sign and date
the acknowledgment of receipt statement at the bottom of the LIC 995 (7/97).
This document shall be kept in the child's file.
- (2) The center shall post a copy of the LIC 995 (7/97) in a prominent,
publicly accessible area in the center.
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