FL DCF 40 Hrs, CHILD CARE FACILITIES
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DCF - Correct Answer ✅Department of Children and
Families
DCF Responsibilities - Correct Answer ✅Administration of
child care licensing and training
Ensuring children are well cared for in a safe, healthy,
positive, and educational environment by trained, qualified
child care staff
This agency determines state rules pertaining to child care
and enforces these rules by licensing and inspecting child
care facilities.
Child Care Professionals Roles and Responsibilities - Correct
Answer ✅-must know, understand, and follow the laws and
the rules and regulations to protect the health and safety of
children in care
-keep children safe
-provide good nutrition and a healthy environment
,FL DCF 40 Hrs, CHILD CARE FACILITIES
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-create a quality environment for learning
Name the key agencies that partner with the Department to
regulate child care. - Correct Answer ✅Local Fire
Departments / Certified Fire Safety Inspectors
County Agencies
Local Licensing Agencies
Child care laws, rules, and regulations are in place to protect -
Correct Answer ✅children, families, and child care
professionals
Office of Child Care Regulation and Background Screening -
Correct Answer ✅licensing authority, regulates licensed
child care facilities in most counties in Florida
Local County Government Agencies - Correct Answer
✅Effect childcare through Zoning and Building, Septic and
Well, Etc...
,FL DCF 40 Hrs, CHILD CARE FACILITIES
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City/Municipal Police Dept. - Correct Answer ✅Effect
childcare through back ground checks and screenings of child
care providers
Child Care - Correct Answer ✅care, protection and
supervision of a child for a period of less than 24 hours on a
regular basis, which supplements parental care, enrichment,
and health supervision for the child in accordance with his or
her individual needs, and for which a payment, fee or grant is
made for care. (Defined in 402.302)
DCF's Office of Child Care Regulations mission: - Correct
Answer ✅To ensure the health, safety, and well being of the
children of the state while in care through licensing and
regulatory activities
The licensing standards established by the Department
address - Correct Answer ✅Physical Environment (health,
sanitation, safety, and physical surroundings)
Children in Care (health, nutrition, and development)
, FL DCF 40 Hrs, CHILD CARE FACILITIES
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Regulation - Correct Answer ✅a law, rule, ordinance, or
other order prescribed by authority to regulate conduct
What is the intent of the Legislature? - Correct Answer ✅To
protect the health and welfare of children
To develop
a regulatory framework that promotes the growth and
stability of the child care industry and facilitates the safe
physical, intellectual, motor, and social development of the
child.
Child Care Regulation Program - Correct Answer ✅is
responsible for regulating programs that provide services that
meet the statutory definition of "child care." This is
accomplished
through the inspection of licensed child care programs to
ensure the consistent statewide application of child care
standards established in statute and rule, and the registration
of child care providers not subject to inspection.
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