Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 87b - Family Day Care Homes › Section 19a-87b-8a - Comprehensive Background Check

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The applicant,
			 provider, prospective employees of the family child care home in a position
			 requiring the provision of care to a child, including assistants and
			 substitutes, and each household member of the age specified in section 19a-87b
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes shall submit to a comprehensive background
			 check as specified by the Office to comply with the provisions of section
			 19a-87b of the Connecticut General Statutes that pertain to comprehensive
			 background checks, including but not limited to, state and national criminal
			 history record checks and the state child abuse and neglect registry
			 established under section 17a-101k of the Connecticut General Statutes. The
			 applicant, provider, prospective employees of the family child care home in a
			 position requiring the provision of care to a child, including assistants and
			 substitutes, and each household member of the age specified in section 19a-87b
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes shall not have a criminal record, or record
			 of child abuse or neglect, in this state or any other state that the
			 commissioner reasonably believes renders such applicant, provider, assistant,
			 or substitute unsuitable to own, conduct, operate, maintain, or be employed by
			 a family child care home. The review of a person's records to determine
			 suitability shall be conducted in accordance with applicable state and federal
			 laws.
(b) The provider shall not
			 employ staff who have a record the commissioner reasonably believes renders
			 such staff ineligible to be employed in a family child care home. The review of
			 a person's record to determine suitability shall be conducted in accordance
			 with applicable state and federal laws.
(c) The provider shall maintain at the family
			 child care home evidence of compliance with the provisions of this
			 section.
(d) The provider shall
			 make available to the Office any information obtained concerning comprehensive
			 background checks, upon request of the Office.
(e) The applicant or provider shall provide
			 to the Office information concerning sex offender status, criminal convictions,
			 or child protective services records pertaining to the applicant, provider,
			 staff or household members upon request of the Office. Failure by the applicant
			 or provider to respond to Office correspondence within a time frame designated
			 by the Office in such correspondence shall constitute sufficient grounds for
			 denial, suspension, or revocation of the license.
(f) A comprehensive background check shall be
			 conducted in accordance with the provisions of
			 45
			 CFR 98.43, as amended from time to time, and
			 shall include:
(1) A search of state criminal
			 records in any state of residency for the past five years;
(2) A search of abuse and neglect registry or
			 database in any state of residency for the past five years;
(3) A search of the sex offender registry or
			 repository in any state of residency for the past five years;
(4) A Federal Bureau of Investigation
			 fingerprint check using Next Generation Identification; and
(5) A search of the National Crime
			 Information Center National Sex Offender Registry.