South Carolina Licensing Standards for Day Care Centers

Licensing Standards for DayCare Centers

Section B
Staff Qualifications

B.(1) Caregivers with supervisory responsibility for other staff and children shall be at least eighteen years old.

B.(2) Caregivers younger than eighteen years old may be counted in staff-to-child ratios, provided the following conditions are met:

B.(2)(a) They are at least sixteen years old;

B.(2)(b) They are not the person in authority and are supervised by a staff person in the same room who is at least eighteen years or older.

B.(3) The director and all staff including emergency person(s) and volunteer(s) shall be able to read and write.

B.(4) In facilities licensed/approved after the effective date of these regulations, all caregivers shall have at least a high school diploma or General Educational Development Certificate (GED), and at least six months experience as a caregiver in a licensed/approved child day care facility. If caregivers do not meet experience requirements, they shall be directly supervised for six months by a staff person with at least one year experience as a caregiver in a licensed/approved child day care facility. Within six months, caregivers must have six clock hours of training in child growth and development/early childhood education or shall continue to be under the direct supervision of a caregiver who has at least one year of experience as a caregiver in a licensed/approved child day care facility.

B.(5) In facilities licensed/approved before the effective date of these regulations, caregivers shall comply with the qualifications listed in (4) above upon license/approval renewal after July 1, 1994.

B.(6) No child day care center shall employ or retain an individual who has been determined to have committed an act of child abuse or neglect.

B.(7) No child day care center shall employ or engage the services of an individual who has been convicted of any crime listed in Chapter 3 of Title 16, Offenses Against the Person, any crime listed in Chapter 15 of Title 16, Offenses Against Morality and Decency, and for the crime of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, contained in Section 16-17-490.

B.(8) Prior to initial licensure, the operator and/or director shall submit to Department staff, current (less than one year old) South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) criminal history background records check forms for staff, regular volunteers and emergency person(s).

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