N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 18 § 416.7 - Program requirements
(a) The
program must establish and implement a daily schedule of program activities
that offers reasonable regularity in routines, including snack and meal
periods, nap and rest periods, indoor activities, outdoor play time and a
variety of large muscle activities throughout the day. There must be physical
activity, appropriate to the ages of the children in care, every day.
(b) When care is provided to infants less
than six months of age, the daily schedule must include short supervised
periods of time during which the awake infant is placed on his or her stomach,
back or side allowing them to move freely and interact socially, thus
developing motor skills and social skills.
(c) The daily schedule must include a routine
of good personal hygiene practices, and when night care is provided, this
includes changing into night clothes, brushing teeth, and washing before bed in
the manner to be agreed between the parent and the program.
(d) Children must receive instruction,
consistent with their age, needs and circumstances, in techniques and
procedures that will enable them to protect themselves from abuse and
maltreatment.
(e) Each group family
day care home must provide a sufficient quantity and variety of materials and
play equipment appropriate to the ages of the children and their developmental
levels and interests, including children with developmental delays or
disabilities, which promote the children's cognitive, educational, social,
cultural, physical, emotional, language and recreational development.
(f) As age and development permit, children
must be allowed freedom of movement and must be provided with an environment
designed to develop such skills as crawling, standing, walking and
running.
(g) Children must be
provided an opportunity to choose between quiet activities and active
play.
(h) Programs must offer daily
supervised outdoor play, except during inclement or extreme weather or unless
otherwise prohibited by a health care provider. Parents may request and
programs may permit children to remain indoors during outdoor play time so long
as such children will be supervised by an approved caregiver.
(i) Except while sleeping, awaking or going
to sleep, an infant must not be left in a crib, playpen or other confined space
for more than 30 minutes at any one time. Other than at meals or snack time, a
child must not be left in a high chair for longer than 15 minutes.
(j) Children may not sleep or nap in car
seats, baby swings, strollers, infant seats or bouncy seats. Should a child
fall asleep in one of these devices, he or she must be moved to a crib/cot or
other approved sleeping surface.
(k) For day and evening care, appropriate
rest and quiet periods, that are responsive to individual and group needs, must
be provided so that children can sit quietly or lie down to rest.
(l) Other than for school age children,
sleeping and napping arrangements must be made in writing between the parent
and the program. Such arrangements shall include: the area of the home where
the child will nap; whether the child will nap on a cot, mat, bed or a crib;
and how the napping child will be supervised, consistent with the requirements
of section
416.8 of
this Part.
(m) Sleeping
arrangements for infants through 12 months of age require that the infant be
placed flat on his or her back to sleep, unless medical information from the
child's health care provider is presented to the program by the parent that
shows that arrangement is inappropriate for that child.
(n) Cribs, bassinets and other sleeping areas
for infants through 12 months of age must include an appropriately sized fitted
sheet, and must not have bumper pads, toys, stuffed animals, blankets, pillows,
wedges or infant positioners. Wedges or infant positioners will be permitted
with medical documentation from the child's health care provider.
(o) The resting/napping places must:
(1) be located in approved day care
space;
(2) be located in safe areas
of the home;
(3) be located in a
draft-free area;
(4) be where
children will not be stepped on;
(5) be in a location where safe egress is not
blocked; and
(6) allow caregivers
to move freely and safely within the napping area in order to check on or meet
the needs of children.
(p) Individual clean bed coverings must be
available, as needed, for each child requiring a rest period.
(q) Bedding, which is the removable and
washable portion of the sleeping environment, must not be shared between
children.
(r) Sleeping surfaces,
including bedding, which is the removable and washable portion of the sleeping
environment, must not come in contact with the sleeping surfaces of another
child's rest equipment during storage. Mats and cots must be stored so that the
sleeping surfaces do not touch when stacked.
(s) No crib, cot, bed or mat may be occupied
by more than one child, nor by a child and any adult.
(t) Children unable to sleep during nap time
shall not be confined to a sleeping surface (cot, crib, etc.) but instead must
be offered a supervised place for quiet play.
(u) 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.
(v) Television and other electronic visual
media must be turned off when not part of a planned developmentally appropriate
program activity.
(w) Children must
not watch television or other electronic visual media during meals.
(x) Television and other electronic visual
media must be turned off while children are sleeping, and during established
nap times. This is not to prohibit a program from using electronic visual media
for business purposes during sleep or nap time if its use does not interfere
with the supervision of children.
(y) 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 home, and its caregivers.
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.
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