N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 18 § 414.7 - Program requirements
(a) A
written daily schedule of program activities and routines is required.
(1) The program must establish and implement
a written daily schedule of an organized, informal and nonscholastic program
activities appropriate to the age, needs and interests of the children,
including children with disabilities. There must be physical activity,
appropriate to the ages of the children in care, every day.
(b) Children must receive
instruction, consistent with their age, needs and circumstances, in techniques
and procedures which will enable them to protect themselves from abuse and
maltreatment.
(c) The program must
make a sufficient quantity and variety of materials and play equipment
available to the children. Such materials and equipment must be appropriate to
the ages of the children and their developmental levels and interests,
including children with developmental delays or disabilities, and promote the
children's cognitive, educational, social, cultural, physical, emotional,
language and recreational development.
(d) Children may not spend the majority of
their program time in rooms used solely for activities where children will be
seated while working on a particular activity or skill.
(e) Children must be provided an opportunity
to choose between quiet activities and active play.
(f) Children must be provided with a program
of self-initiated, group-initiated and staff-initiated activities which are
intellectually stimulating, and foster self-reliance and social
responsibility.
(g) Program
activities which offer reasonable regularity in routines, including snack and
meal periods, quiet activities and active play, and activities which provide
children with opportunities for learning and self-expression is
required.
(h) If television or
other electronic visual media is used, it must be part of a planned
developmentally appropriate program with an educational, social, physical or
other learning objective that includes identified goals and objectives.
Television and other electronic visual media must not be used solely to occupy
time.
(1) Television and other electronic
visual media must be turned off when not part of a planned developmentally
appropriate program activity.
(2)
Children must not watch television or other electronic visual media during
meals.
(3) Children's exposure to
age and developmentally appropriate television and other screen time activities
must be balanced with other program components that engage children in active
physical, intellectual and creative activities.
(i) At the time of the child's admission to
the program, the program must furnish parents with appropriate instructional
materials that will assist them in evaluating the program, and its staff. Such
materials must include information concerning child abuse and maltreatment, and
guidance on the steps the parent may take if they suspect their child has been
abused or maltreated.
(j) The
program must offer information about other community resources to families when
they are in need of supportive social services not otherwise provided by the
school age child care program.
Notes
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