California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 1 - California Department of Education › Chapter 19 - Early Learning and Care Programs › Subchapter 3 - General Child Care Programs › Article 4 - Admission Policies and Procedures › Section 18106 - Admission Priorities; Waiting List; and Displacement

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Within the first priority for services
					 stated in Education Code section
					 8263(b)(1),
					 children receiving protective services through the local county welfare
					 department shall be enrolled before children identified as at risk of being
					 neglected or abused.
(b) Except for
					 situations where not all of the children in a family are certified based on
					 child protective services, or the child's special need, a family that has a
					 child or children enrolled in a program shall be allowed to enroll additional
					 children provided there exists an appropriate program opening such as infant
					 care or services to school age care children in which to enroll the
					 child.
(c) When not all of the
					 children in a family are certified based on child protective services, or the
					 child's special need, the other children or the parents in the family must meet
					 both eligibility and need criteria as specified in Education Code section
					 8263(a)(1) and
					 (a)(2) prior to enrollment and shall be
					 admitted in accordance with priorities specified in Education Code section
					 8263(b).
(d) Contractors shall not deny service to nor
					 assign a lower priority to a family that needs less than full-time
					 services.
(e) Contractors shall
					 maintain a current waiting list in accordance with admission priorities.
					 Contractors may satisfy the requirement for maintaining a waiting list by
					 participating in a county child care centralized eligibility list. Contractors
					 shall contact applicants in order of priority from the waiting list as
					 vacancies occur.
(f) If it is
					 necessary to displace families, families shall be displaced in reverse order of
					 admission priorities.
1. New
						section filed 11-21-88; operative 1-1-89 (Register 88, No. 50).
2.
						Amendment of subsection (e) filed 4-15-2003; operative 5-15-2003 (Register
						2003, No. 16).
3. Amendment of subsections (b) and (c) and amendment
						of NOTE filed 5-6-2005 as an emergency; operative 5-6-2005 (Register 2005, No.
						18). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 9-6-2005 or
						emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
						day.
4. Reinstatement of section as it existed prior to emergency
						amendment filed 10-14-2005 by operation of Government Code section
						11346.1(f).
						Certificate of Compliance as to 5-6-2005 order transmitted to OAL 9-2-2005;
						disapproved by OAL and order of repeal as to 5-6-2005 order filed on 10-14-2005
						(Register 2005, No. 41).
5. Amendment filed 10-14-2005 as an
						emergency; operative 10-14-2005 (Register 2005, No. 41). A Certificate of
						Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-13-2006 or emergency language will
						be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
6.
						Reinstatement of section as it existed prior to 10-14-2005 emergency amendment
						by operation of Government Code section
						11346.1(f)
						(Register 2006, No. 20).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  8261 and
						  8263,
						  Education Code. Reference: Section
						  8263,
						  Education Code.