DCF 250.095(2)(b)(b) Supervision of the planning and implementation of the center’s program for children.
DCF 250.095(2)(c)(c) Supervision of center staff, including the following duties:
DCF 250.095(2)(c)1.1. Implement and maintain a written job description for each staff position.
DCF 250.095(2)(c)2.2. Implement and maintain a written personnel policy that addresses hours of work, lunch and break times, holidays, vacations, sick leaves, leaves of absence, probationary periods, performance evaluations, grievance procedures, and the disciplinary process. The personnel policy shall contain a procedure that requires staff to notify the licensee and the licensee to notify the department as soon as possible, but no later than the next business day, when any of the following occurs:
DCF 250.095(2)(c)2.a.a. The employee has been convicted of a crime.
DCF 250.095(2)(c)2.b.b. The employee has been or is being investigated by any governmental agency for any other act, offense, or omission, including an investigation related to the abuse or neglect or threat of abuse or neglect, to a child or other client, or an investigation related to misappropriation of a client’s property.
DCF 250.095(2)(c)2.c.c. The employee has a substantiated governmental finding against them for abuse or neglect of a child or adult or for misappropriation of a client’s property.
DCF 250.095(2)(c)2.d.d. A professional license held by the employee has been denied, revoked, restricted, or otherwise limited.
DCF 250.095(2)(c)3.3. Ensure that each employee is familiar with the employee’s job description, personnel policies, and applicable licensing rules.
DCF 250.095(2)(c)4.4. Conduct staff meetings at least 9 times in a calendar year and document that the meetings have been held.
DCF 250.095(2)(c)5.5. Ensure staff compliance with continuing education requirements.
DCF 250.095(3)(3)The licensee shall be at the center for at least 30 hours per month for the exclusive purpose of carrying out licensee responsibilities in sub. (2).
DCF 250.095 HistoryHistory: CR 07-102: cr. Register December 2008 No. 636, eff. 1-1-09; EmR1918: emerg. am. (intro.), eff. 1-30-19; CR 19-089: am. (intro.) Register March 2020 No. 771, eff. 4-1-20; CR 21-100: am. (1) Register February 2023 No. 806, eff. 3-1-23.
DCF 250.10DCF 250.10Additional requirements for night care.
DCF 250.10(1)(1)Applicability. Family child care centers that operate during any period of time between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. shall comply with the requirements of this section.
DCF 250.10(2)(2)General requirements.
DCF 250.10(2)(a)(a) When the same premises are used for the operation of both day care and night care, the number of children during any overlapping of the day care and night care periods may not exceed the maximum licensed capacity of the center.
DCF 250.10(2)(b)(b) Minimum staff-to-child ratios and group sizes under Table DCF 250.055 shall be maintained during night care.
DCF 250.10(2)(c)(c) The parent or center shall provide each child in care after 10:00 p.m. with an individually labeled sleeping garment and a toothbrush.
DCF 250.10(3)(3)Program.
DCF 250.10(3)(a)(a) Child care staff shall ascertain from a child’s parent a child’s typical family activities during the period the child is at the center for night care and strive to replicate those activities with the child.
DCF 250.10(3)(b)(b) A center offering night care shall provide a self-contained room away from sleeping children where an awake child may engage in activities.
DCF 250.10(3)(c)(c) An evening and morning schedule of program activities shall be planned for the hours that children in night care are awake.
DCF 250.10(3)(d)(d) School-age children shall have an opportunity to read or do school work.
DCF 250.10(4)(4)Preventive measures.
DCF 250.10(4)(a)(a) A provider shall develop, submit to the department, and implement a plan to evacuate sleeping children in an emergency. Review of the plan shall be part of the orientation under s. DCF 250.05 (3).
DCF 250.10(4)(b)(b) Centers operating during hours of darkness shall have emergency lighting, such as an operable flashlight, readily available to a provider.
DCF 250.10(4)(c)(c) Providers shall be awake, available, within call and able to respond to the needs of the children whenever children are in care.
DCF 250.10(5)(5)Feeding.