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Child Care Regulations

The regulation index for child care facilities at 55 Pa. Code §§ 3270, 3280, and 3290 has been updated and now reflects changes effective December 2020. To ensure accurate comprehension, providers should review the updated language and reference the complete child care regulations utilizing the  links below.

Regulations

The Department of Human Services’ (DHS) regulations for operating a child care facility are available on the internet. Listed below are each of the regulations that pertain to the operation of a child care facility, a brief description of the regulation, and the hyperlink to the regulation:

• 55 Pa. Code, Chapter 20, Licensure or Approval of Facilities and Agencies
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  This regulation provides the rules regarding applying for a certificate of compliance (license), frequency and content of DHS inspections, preparing and issuing a certificate of compliance, conditions under which a certificate of compliance may be denied, not renewed, or revoked and the DHS licensure or approval decisions that may be appealed. Chapter 20 applies to child care centers and group day care homes.
• 55 Pa. Code, Chapter 3270, Child Care Centers. 
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  This regulation provides the rules regarding the operation of a child care center. A child care center is a facility in which seven or more children unrelated to the operator receive child care services. A child day care center must have a certificate of compliance (license) from DHS in order to operate.
• 55 Pa. Code, Chapter 3280, Group Child Care Homes. 
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  This regulation provides the rules regarding the operation of a group child care home. A group care home is a facility in which seven to 12 children unrelated to the operator receive child care services. A group child care home must have a certificate of compliance (license) from DHS in order to operate.
• 55 Pa. Code, Chapter 3290, Family Child Care Homes. 
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  This regulation provides the rules regarding the operation of a family care home. A family child care home is a facility in which four, five or six children unrelated to the operator receive child care services. A family care home must be located in a home and must have a certificate of compliance (license) from DHS in order to operate. 

Family Child Care: What to Expect in an Inspection

All family child care homes in Pennsylvania will soon be required to earn a Certificate of Compliance as a CERTIFIED, also called LICENSED, child care provider. The process to get certified/licensed includes annual unannounced inspections of family child care homes.

Conducted by Certification Representatives from the Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL), under the Department of Human Services (DHS), the annual unannounced inspections will help family child care homes meet regulatory standards for providing safe and healthy environments for children.

OCDEL worked with the Pennsylvania Key, Better Kid Care, and several experienced family child care programs to produce this introductory video on what providers can expect during an inspection.

OCDEL Program Self Assessment Checklist to Support Certification Compliance

These new user-friendly tools were designed to assist Child Care Center, Family, and Group Child Care Home Providers in performing periodic reviews of their facility operations to achieve compliance with OCDEL certification regulations.  When utilized regularly, these checklists can help to identify program strengths and gaps in the understanding of and compliance with OCDEL regulations.

• View the Self Assessment Checklists and supporting webinar recording now.

Certification Inspection Instrument (CII)

New Certification Inspection Instrument and Worksheets for Renewal Visits

The creation and implementation of the Certification Inspection Instrument (CII) represent DHS and OCDEL’s commitment to consistent monitoring of all existing regulations and transparency of the certification and inspection process. The CII standardizes how certification regulations are applied, measured, and enforced consistently across Pennsylvania and support consistent documentation of inspection results and compliance.

The CII accessed via the links below and presented in the webinar is for use in conducting a renewal inspection at a Child Care Center, Group Child Care Home, Family Child Care Home, and School Age Child Care facility. 

Download the CII and related worksheets and forms below: The CII supports the consistent monitoring of Certification Regulations. Use this to support your own review of requirements related to: posted notices, required paperwork, transportation, ratio and supervision, and physical site.

Learn more about the Certification Inspection Instrument and Worksheets by watching this webinar. We recommend downloading and printing the Certification Inspection Instrument (CII) tool before watching the video. 

Webinar: Launch of New Certification Tool: Certification Inspection Instrument (CII)

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Infant Care & Baby Daycare Brooklyn Park + Eden Prairie MN

At Today’s Life Schools & Child Care, we strive to provide a stimulating environment where each baby, newborn and infant is well cared for, safe, and treasured. We cater to each individual child and their specific needs throughout each milestone in their development.

Classrooms

As parents, we understand that you like to know what is going on with your child at all times, which is why at Today’s Life Schools & Child Care, we follow a weekly schedule. Each week we have a different theme-based curriculum that includes daily circle time. This time is spent singing songs, displaying pictures, showing flashcards, and reading stories in order to help enhance your child’s cognitive development. Some of the other activities that you can expect to find in our daily schedule include sign language, art projects, baby massages, daily sensory activities, and more!

For the safety of the children, we offer both non-mobile and mobile infant classrooms.

At Today’s Life Schools & Child Care, we strive to help your child develop in all areas. To maintain our status as a trusted and reliable center for baby and newborn daycare, our classroom goals also include helping the infants:

• Learn with their whole body and with all of their senses
• Sustain natural curiosity and a desire to learn
• Learn within the context of trusting relationships
• Communicate what they know

Infant 1 Program Focus

We practice tummy time, rolling over, holding a bottle, sleeping in a crib, clapping, crawling, and sitting. We practice these skill in order to prepare your infant to move to our mobile infant room.

Infant 2 Program Focus

We practice walking, using sippy cups, eating table food, going without a morning nap, decreasing the use of the pacifier, and sleeping on a cot. These new skills prepare them for their transition into the toddler room.

Health and Safety

Our infant program is designed for children who are between the ages of six weeks and 16 months old. In this program, our professional caregivers will provide each baby with love, attention, and security in a safe and healthy environment. To maximize safety, the ratio in the infant rooms is one teacher to four infants.

All of our staff are well-trained and up-to-date on Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) and Abusive Head Trauma (AHT) classes before they even start working with the children and continue to renew the courses every year.

Because nap times are important for happy, healthy babies, we follow each baby’s cues and parent instructions to make sure that each child receives adequate rest. We follow strict guidelines and practice safe-sleep procedures.

Health and sanitation is very important to us. We maintain a clean environment for the children, which sometimes can be quite the job, as you well know. To achieve our high standard of cleanliness, we wash and sanitize our toys and equipment numerous times throughout the day.

The procedures we follow for diapering focus on each baby’s comfort and health, while also maintaining a sanitary area.

In order to protect the health of the other children in the classroom, we require each infant to receive a physical examination and current immunizations before enrollment.

Meals and Snacks

Until your baby is ready for regular table food, we follow your own diet plan using your food and bottles.

Communication

The right daycare for your newborn is paramount to their development and your peace of mind as parents. We know that the details of your baby’s daycare are important to you. Along with adherence to your instructions and preferences, you will receive daily report about your baby’s day. Beyond our daily parent/teacher communication, we offer parent/teacher conferences twice a year.

Come visit us today! Click here or call us at (952) 358-2020 for Eden Prairie or (763) 951-2032 for Brooklyn Park to schedule a visit today! With locations in Eden Prairie and Brooklyn Park, we serve the entire Minneapolis area.

Infant care centers are designed specifically to care for children under two years of age. The staff-to-child ratio is higher and the caregivers are trained to care for newborns and babies. The environment is more conducive to napping and sleeping because infants require more sleep than older children.

Your infant will have the opportunity to socialize with other children, learn new skills and develop their emotional and physical abilities. At Today’s Life, our center offers a sense of stability and routine, and it will help them build strong attachments with our caregivers. We provide a safe, nurturing and intellectually stimulating environment for your child to learn, grow and bond with other babies.

We recommend scheduling a tour and meeting our staff. We offer free tours, allowing you to witness first-hand how our staff interacts with the children and get a feel for our center’s overall atmosphere. This is a great opportunity to ask questions about our policies and procedures, making it easier to determine whether our center is a good fit for your infant.

Some signs that a center is poorly run include dirty or unkempt children, staff who are not attentive to the needs of the children and a lack of structure or routine. Poorly run centers can also be chaotic and loud. If you have any concerns, we recommend touring the center and getting to know the staff before enrolling your child.

Signs of a well-run infant care center include children who are clean and well-cared for, staff who are attentive and responsive to the needs of the children and a structured daily routine. Well run centers are typically calm and quiet.

Today’s Life service costs vary on account of age groups and attendance. Please reach out to us for specific rates regarding your situation.

Today’s Life staff boasts exemplary qualifications. Qualifications for our staff is based on a wide range of criteria defined by state rules from Child Development certificates to Bachelor’s degrees and hands-on experience.

Parents are required to provide personalized plans we follow to ensure your child has the care you desired. Table food, diapers and wipes are provided by the center. All infants’ personal items must be labeled.

We offer promotions on enrollment fees on occasion and do offer a 10% and 5% discount on sibling enrollment at our centers.

Today’s Life accepts a wide-variety of payment. We currently accept checks, debit cards and major credit cards except American Express.

Today’s Life does carry general and liability insurance.

Today’s Life does not provide any type of transportation to our children. All field trips are in-house.

Today’s Life strives to provide the best quality care and learning environment to each infant to promote healthy growth.

Our ratios are 4:1 child to adult caregivers.

Kindergartens of Tatarstan – reviews, rating, list, on the map district of the Republic Tatarstan (hereinafter referred to as the Institution…

Kindergarten No. 358

Kazan, Komissara Gabishev street, 5

Year of foundation of the institution: 1984.

Kindergarten No. 404

Kazan, Simonova street, 37a

Year of establishment: 1991.

Kindergarten No. 46

Almetyevsk district, Almetyevsk, Gertsena street, 96a

9000 2 The preschool institution was registered on May 13, 2011.
The facility is equipped with the following rooms:
• gym;
• music hall;
• room for the study of Tatar…

Kindergarten No. 206

Kazan, Akademika Kirpichnikova street, 3a

Year of foundation of the institution: 1964.

Kindergarten No. 149

Kazan, Yutazinskaya street, 8a

Year of establishment of the institution: 1938.

Kindergarten No. 175

Kazan, Alberta Kamaleeva avenue, 32a 9 0003

Foundation year: 2015.

Child kindergarten No. 146

Kazan, Gali Dinmukhametova street, 4b

Year of foundation of the institution: 2015.

Kindergarten No. 7

Kazan, Chingiz Aitmatov street, 15

Year of foundation of the institution: 2014.

Kindergarten No. 186

Kazan, Lokatornaya street, 26b

Year of foundation of the institution: 2015. 900 03

Kindergarten No. 177

Kazan, street Natan Rakhlina, 11

Year of foundation of the institution: 2015.

Kindergarten No. 154

Kazan, Shkolnaya street, 4b

Year of foundation of the institution: 2015.

Kindergarten No. 124 9000 3

Kazan, Nardugan street, 47

Year of foundation of the institution: 2014.

Kindergarten No. 119

Kazan, Tynych street, 2

Year of foundation of the institution: 2014.

Kindergarten No. Minskaya street, 43

Foundation year: 2014.

Kindergarten No. 6

Kazan, Lomzhinskaya street, 10

Year of foundation of the institution: 2013.

Kindergarten No. 54

Kazan, Minskaya street, 55a

9 0002 Foundation year: 2011.

Kindergarten No. 50

Kazan, Pobedy avenue, 212b

Foundation year: 2011.

Kindergarten No. 402

Kazan, Julius Fuchik street, 139

9 0002 Foundation year: 1991.

Kindergarten no. 3

Kazan, Noksinsky Spusk street, 9

Year of foundation of the institution: 2013.

Kindergarten No. 120

Kazan, Krutaya ulitsa, 26a

Year of foundation of the institution: 2014.

Kindergarten No. 113

Kazan, Akademika Glushko street, 20b

Year of foundation of the institution: 2014.

Kindergarten No. 103

Kazan, Dzhaudata Fayzi street, 5

Year of foundation of the institution: 2011. 900 03

Kindergarten No. 68

Kazan, Prospekt Pobedy, 180a

Year of foundation of the institution: 2011.

Kindergarten No. 67

Kazan, Akademika Glushko street, 22d

Year of foundation of the institution: 2011.

Kindergarten No. 64

Kazan, Haydar Bigichev street, 7a

Year of foundation of the institution: 2011.

Kindergarten No. 60

Kazan, Akademika Sakharova street, 12a

Year of foundation of the institution: 2011.

Kindergarten No. 48

Kazan, Akademika Glushko street, 11a

Founded Institutions: 2011.

Kindergarten No. 415

Kazan, Kashtanova Street, 6

The foundation of the institution: 1961.

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90,000 8 kindergartens of the Samara region in the top 25 of the best in Russia

In total, the rating includes 3536 preschool educational institutions from all over the country.

Kindergartens from Tolyatti are on the 1st and 5th places. Samara preschool institutions were in 7,15,19,20,24 and 25 places.

Kindergartens in Moscow, Volgograd, Jewish, Kaluga regions, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Kursk, Novosibirsk, Samara, Tambov regions, Republics of Komi, Mordovia, Ryazan, Ulyanovsk regions, Udmurt Republic, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous districts.

The rating evaluated kindergartens according to three criteria: “Conditions created for the child” (safety, equipment of premises and playgrounds, availability of toys, etc.), “Teachers working with children” (assesses the qualifications of teachers) and “Additional services” .

All kindergartens were rated “good” and “satisfactory” according to the criterion “Conditions created for the child in kindergarten”.

Moscow, Tambov, Samara and Ulyanovsk regions received the highest results among other regions – from 75% to 100% of kindergartens from these regions were rated “good”.

The vast majority of kindergartens according to the criterion “Teachers working with children in kindergarten” correspond to the assessment “satisfactory”. Only one kindergarten from the Samara region, which is the leader in the overall rating, corresponds to the “good” rating. The lowest results were shown by kindergartens in the Jewish Autonomous Region, 55% of which were rated “not satisfactory”.

A compensating type kindergarten “Mayachok” Togliatti topped the published rating of municipal kindergartens in Russia-2013.
“Mayachok” outperformed other kindergartens in the first two indicators, yielding in the third. However, his composite index was 55.95%, which allowed him to take the first line. It is followed by the preschool institution “Snegurochka” from Surgut (50.49%) and the Volgograd kindergarten of a combined type (50.19%), writes letidor.ru

TOP-25 municipal kindergartens in Russia-2013

d / s compensating type No. 196 “Mayachok”, Togliatti
2. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Yugra / MBDOU d / s No. 40 “Snegurochka”, Surgut
3. Volgograd region / MDOU d / s combined type No. 307, Volgograd
4. Volgograd region / MDOU d / s compensating type No. 71, Volgograd
5. Samara region / MBDOU d / s of the combined type No. 6 “Forest Fairy Tale”, Togliatti
6. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Yugra / MBDOU d / s No. 77 “Erudit”, Nizhnevartovsk
7. Samara region / MBDOU d / s compensating type No. 465, Samara
8. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Yugra / MBDOU d / s No. 66 “Zabavushka”, Nizhnevartovsk
9. Moscow / GBOU d / s No. 2658, Moscow
10. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Yugra / MBDOU “Child Development Center / Nursery School No. 25 “Rodnichok”, Surgut
11. Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug / Yugra / MBDOU d / s No. 83 “Duck’s Nest”, Surgut
12. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Yugra / MBDOU d / s No. 81 “Malvina”, Surgut
13. Novosibirsk region / MKDOU “Center for Child Development / kindergarten No. 501 “Medvezhonok”, Novosibirsk
14. Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug / Yugra / MBDOU “Center for Child Development / kindergarten No. 7 “Herringbone”, Khanty-Mansiysk
15. Samara region / MBDOU “Center for Child Development / d / s No. 462”, Samara
16. Republic of Komi / MBDOU d / s general developmental species No. 24, Usinsk
17. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Yugra / MBDOU d / s No.