7 AAC 50.410. Supervision of children; child-to-caregiver ratios in residential child care facilities

(a) A caregiver shall be on duty in a residential child care facility whenever one or more children are present.

(b) Except as provided in (c) of this section, the caregiver-to-child ratio in a facility must be as follows:

(1) one caregiver for every six children during any time children are awake and engaged in activity outside their sleeping quarters; and

(2) one caregiver for every 12 children during sleeping hours.

(1) three infants and toddlers in care during waking hours; and

(2) five infants and toddlers in care during sleeping hours.

(d) The administrator may be counted as a caregiver for the purposes of (b) and (c) of this section only if the facility serves 12 or fewer children.

History: Eff. 1/1/96, Register 136; am 3/1/98, Register 145

Authority: AS 44.29.020

AS 47.35.010

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