Arizona Administrative Code › Title 6 - ECONOMIC SECURITY › Chapter 5 - DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC SECURITY - SOCIAL SERVICES › Article 52 - CERTIFICATION AND SUPERVISION OF FAMILY CHILD CARE HOME PROVIDERS › Section R6-5-5201 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions apply in this Article:
1. "Abandonment" has the meaning ascribed to "abandoned" in
				  A.R.S. §
									8-201(1).
2. "Abuse" has the meaning ascribed in A.R.S. §
									8-201(2).
3. "Age" means years of a person's lifetime when used in
				  reference to a number, unless the term "months" is used.
4. "Adult" means a person age 18 or older.
5. "Applicant" means a person who submits a written
				  application to the Department to become certified as a child care
				  provider.
6. "Backup provider" means an adult who, or an entity that,
				  provides child care when a provider is not available.
7. "CACFP" means the Child and Adult Care Food
				  Program.
8. "Certificate" means a document the Department issues to a
				  provider as evidence that the provider has met the child care standards of this
				  Article.
9. "Child" means a person younger than age 18.
10. "Child care" means the compensated care, supervision,
				  recreation, socialization, guidance, and protection of a child who is
				  unaccompanied by a parent.
11. "Child care personnel" means all adults residing in a
				  home facility, an in-home provider, and any backup provider.
12. "Child care registration agreement" means a written
				  contract between a provider and the Department; that establishes the rights and
				  duties of the provider and the Department for provision of child care.
13. "Child care specialist" means a Department child care
				  eligibility and/or certification staff person.
14. "CHILDS" means the Children's Information Library and
				  Data Source, which is a comprehensive, automated system to support child
				  welfare policies and procedures, and includes information on investigations,
				  ongoing case management, and payments.
15. "CHILDS Central Registry" means the Child Protective
				  Services Central Registry, a confidential, computerized database within CHILDS,
				  which the Department maintains according to A.R.S. §
									8-804.
16. "Child with special needs" means a child who needs
				  increased supervision, modified equipment, modified activities, or a modified
				  facility, due to any physical, mental, sensory, or emotional delay, or medical
				  condition, and includes a child who has a physical or mental impairment that
				  substantially limits one or more major life activities; has a record of having
				  a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the
				  child's major life activities; or who is regarded as having an impairment,
				  regardless of whether the child has the impairment.
17. "Client" means a person who applies for and meets the
				  eligibility criteria for a child care service program administered by the
				  Department.
18. "Compensation" means something given or received, such as
				  money, goods, or services, as payment for child care services.
19. "Corporal punishment" means any act that is administered
				  as a form of discipline and that either is intended to cause bodily pain, or
				  may result in physical damage or injury.
20. "CPS" means Child Protective Services, a Department
				  administration that operates a program to investigate allegations of child
				  maltreatment and provide protective services.
21. "Department" means the Arizona Department of Economic
				  Security.
22. "Developmentally appropriate" means an action that takes
				  into account:
a. A child's age and family background;
b. The predictable changes that occur in a child's physical,
				  emotional, social, cultural, and cognitive development; and
c. The individual child's pattern and timing of growth,
				  personality, and learning style.
23. "DHS" means the Arizona Department of Health
				  Services.
24. "Direct supervision" means within sight and sound.
25. "Exploitation" means an act of taking advantage of, or
				  making use of a child selfishly, unethically, or unjustly for one's own
				  advantage or profit, in a manner contrary to the best interests of the child,
				  such as having a child panhandle, steal, or perform other illegal
				  activities.
26. "Evening care" means child care provided at any time
				  between 6:30 p.m. and midnight.
27. "Heating device" means an instrument designed to produce
				  heat for a room or inside area and includes a non-electric stove, fireplace,
				  freestanding stove, or space heater.
28. "Home facility" means a provider's residence that the
				  Department has certified as a location where child care services may be
				  provided.
29. "Household member" means a person who does not provide
				  child care services and who resides in the home facility of a provider for 21
				  consecutive days or longer or who resides periodically throughout the year for
				  a total of at least 21 days.
30. "Infant" means:
a. A child who is younger than 12 months old; and
b. A child who is younger than 18 months old and not
				  walking.
31. "In-home provider" means a provider who cares for a child
				  in the child's home.
32. "Maltreatment" means abuse, neglect, exploitation, or
				  abandonment of a child.
33. "Medication" means any prescribed or over-the-counter
				  drug or medicine.
34. "Mechanical restraint" means a device to restrict a
				  child's movement.
35. "Neglect" has the same meaning ascribed in A.R.S. §
									8-201.
36. "Night-time care" means child care provided at any time
				  between midnight and 6:00 a.m.
37. "Non-parent relative" means a caretaker relative who
				  exercises responsibility for the day-to day physical care, guidance, and
				  support of a child who physically resides with the relative and who is by
				  affinity, consanguinity, or court decree, a grandparent, great grandparent,
				  sibling of the whole or half-blood, stepbrother, stepsister, aunt, uncle, great
				  aunt, great uncle, or first cousin of the child.
38. "Parent" means the biological or adoptive parent of a
				  child, a court-appointed guardian, or a non-parent relative.
39. "Provider" means an adult who is not the parent or
				  guardian of a child needing care, and to whom the Department has issued a
				  certificate, and includes a backup provider who performs the provider's duties
				  when the provider is unavailable.
40. "Physical restraint" means the use of bodily force to
				  restrict a child's freedom of movement.
41. "Safeguard" means to use reasonable efforts and
				  developmentally appropriate measures to eliminate the risk of harm to a child
				  in care and ensure that a child in care will not be harmed by a particular
				  object, substance, or activity. Safeguarding may include:
a. Locking up a particular substance or item;
b. Putting a substance or item beyond the reach of a child
				  who is not mobile;
c. Erecting a barrier that prevents a child from reaching a
				  particular place, item, or substance;
d. Mandating the use of a protective safety device; or
e. Providing direct supervision.
42. "Sanitize" means treatment by a heating or chemical
				  process that reduces the bacterial count, including pathogens, to a safe
				  level.
43. "Time out" means removing a child from a situation by
				  directing the child to remain in a specific chair or place identified as the
				  time out place, for no more than one minute for each year of a child's age, but
				  no more than 10 minutes.
44. "Undue hardship" means significant difficulty or
				  substantial expense concerning the operation of a provider's program. In this
				  subsection, "significant" and "substantial" are measured relative to the level
				  of net income the provider earns from child care services.
45. "Unusual incident" means any accident, injury, behavior
				  problem, or other extraordinary situation involving a provider or a child in
				  care, including suspected child maltreatment.