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Alaska Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 12, 2017) |
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Title 7. Health and Social Services. |
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Part 7.1. Administration. |
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Chapter 7.50. Community Care Licensing. |
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Article 7.50.1. Licensing Process. |
Section 7.50.410. Supervision of children; child-to-caregiver ratios in residential child care facilities.
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(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. (c) The caregiver-to-child ratio when there are infants or toddlers in care must be one caregiver for every (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.
Authorities
44.29.020;47.35.010