Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part V - Children, Youth and Families Manual › Subpart D - Nonresidential Agencies, Facilities and Services › Article III - County-Administered Services › Chapter 3490 - PROTECTIVE SERVICES › Subchapter A - CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES › VERIFICATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF CHILD ABUSE AND STUDENT ABUSE RECORDS FOR CHILD CARE SERVICES › Section 3490.121 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
							 section and §§
													3490.122-3490.127 (relating to verification
							 of the existence of child abuse and student abuse records for child care
							 services) have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
							 otherwise:
Administrator
-A person hired by or
							 under contract with a legal entity to be responsible for the management and
							 operation of a child care service.
Applicant
-A person who will have
							 direct contact with children in a child care service, who does one of the
							 following:
(i) Applies for gainful
						  employment in a child care service, including an administrator, or other
						  support personnel.
(ii) Applies for
						  employment with a contractor who is under contract with a child care facility
						  or program.
(iii) Is employed by a
						  contractor seeking a contract with a child care facility or program.
Child care service
-
(i) Child day care centers, group and family
						  day care homes, foster homes, adoptive parents, boarding homes for children,
						  juvenile detention center services or programs for delinquent or dependent
						  children; mental health, mental retardation, early intervention and drug and
						  alcohol services for children; and other child care services which are provided
						  by or subject to approval, licensure, registration or certification by the
						  Department or a county social services agency or which are provided under a
						  contract with the Department or a county social services agency.
(ii) The term does not include services or
						  programs which may be offered by public and private schools, intermediate units
						  or area vocational-technical schools.
Child caretaker
-
(i) A person whether compensated or not who
						  provides care for a child and who voluntarily solicits certification from the
						  Department under section 6344 of the CPSL (relating to information relating to
						  prospective child-care personnel).
(ii) The term includes a babysitter, scout
						  leader or den parent.
Direct contact with children
-Access
							 to children by a paid employe of or person under contract with a child care
							 service who has routine and unsupervised access to children in the course of
							 carrying out the employe's responsibilities in a child care service.
Legal entity
-Includes a society
							 partnership, corporation or another governing authority legally responsible for
							 the administration and operation of a child care service.
Operator
-A person who provides a
							 child care service but is not hired by or under contract with a legal
							 entity.
Permanent employe
-A child care
							 worker who meets one of the following conditions:
(i) Has met the requirement of §
													3490.122 (relating to
						  responsibilities of an applicant, prospective operator or legal entity of a
						  child care service).
(ii) Was
						  employed prior to January 1, 1986, and was not required to submit the requests
						  for clearances.
Request for verification
-A request
							 to the Statewide Central Register from an applicant, operator of a child care
							 service, foster parent or adoptive parent or a child caretaker seeking
							 voluntary certification to determine whether the applicant is named as a
							 perpetrator in an indicated or founded report of child abuse.