416.8(a) · Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a caregiver's range of vision except as provided in section 416.8(b) of this Part and that the caregiver be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age, emotional, physical and cognitive development.

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Category: supervision. Marked corrected in the state record.

416.8(j)(2) · Two caregivers must be present when more than six children, none of whom are school age, are in care.

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Marked corrected in the state record.

416.8(j)(3) · When care is provided for children under the age of two years, there must be at least one caregiver present for every two children under the age of two years in attendance.

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Marked corrected in the state record.

416.11(a)(1) · No child may be accepted for care in a child care program unless the program has been furnished with a written statement signed by a health care provider verifying that the child is able to participate in child care and currently appears to be free from contagious or communicable diseases. A child's medical statement must have been completed within the 12 months preceding the date of enrollment.

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Category: recordkeeping. Marked corrected in the state record.

416.11(b)(1) · The provider, assistant(s), and substitute(s), must each submit a medical statement on forms furnished by the Office or an approved equivalent from a health care provider:

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Marked corrected in the state record.

416.11(b)(6) · The initial medical statement for providers, assistants, and substitutes must include the results of a Mantoux tuberculin test or other federally approved tuberculin test performed within the 12 months preceding the date of the application. Thereafter, tuberculin tests are only required at the discretion of the employee's health care provider or at the start of new employment in a different child care program.

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Marked corrected in the state record.

416.11(b)(12) · All caregivers must have knowledge of and access to children's medical records and all emergency information.

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Category: recordkeeping. Marked corrected in the state record.

416.13(b) · All child day care providers, employees, volunteers and any person age eighteen (18) or older living or who begins to live in a group family day care home are required to comply with the criminal history review provisions of this Part and Part 413 of this Title.

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Category: background checks. Marked corrected in the state record.

416.13(c) · All child day care providers, employees, volunteers and any person age eighteen (18) or older living or who begins to live in a group family day care home hired after June 30, 2013, must comply with the background check requirements for the register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect maintained by the Justice Center for the Protection of Persons with Special Needs pursuant to Section 495 of the Social Services Law.

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Category: background checks. Marked corrected in the state record.

416.13(d) · All child day care providers, employees, volunteers and any person age eighteen (18) or older living or who begins to live in a group family day care home are required to complete a Statewide Central Register database check.

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Marked corrected in the state record.

416.15(a)(1)(ii) · Each group family day care home must operate in compliance with the regulations of the Office and all other applicable laws and regulations.

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Marked corrected in the state record.

416.15(b)(11)(i) · In hiring caregivers subsequent to issuance of a license, a program: must notify the Office immediately in writing when there is any change of caregivers;

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Category: recordkeeping. Marked corrected in the state record.

416.15(b)(11)(ii)(e) · two acceptable references;

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Open / not marked corrected.

416.15(b)(12) · The group family day care home must report to the Office: any change affecting, or which reasonably might be expected to affect, those portions of the building and property in which the program is operating or which are used for the children's egress in the case of emergency; any change in household members; and any other change that would place the home out of compliance with applicable regulations.

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Category: physical safety. Marked corrected in the state record.