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b. School-Age Children When school-age children are in care a provider must provide a program that supplements rather than duplicates the child’s school activities. School-aged children are to be given freedom appropriate to the child’s age and developmental level with opportunities for self-reliance, social responsibility, and selection and planning of their own activities.

c. Treat Children Equitably Providers must treat children in care equitably with their own children, if any.

d. Encourage Parental Involvement Providers are to encourage parental involvement and must allow parents unlimited access to their children, the provider, and all areas of the child care facility to observe or participate.

e. Child Identified as having SpecialNeeds Providers must ensure all children are afforded opportunities to participate in any scheduled activities, as possible. Providers caring for a child identified as having special needs must develop and implement a Plan of Care for a Child with Special Needs CC89 for that child to enhance their developmental status. Providers must conduct regularly scheduled reassessments of each child’s Plan of Care for a Child with Special Needs CC89 to monitor effectiveness.

4230-3 C. BEHAVIOR GUIDANCE An Approved Relative provider must help children in care develop age-appropriate patterns of behavior that will foster constructive relationships and increase the child’s ability to deal with everyday life. Exclusionary practices are only to be used as a last resort in extraordinary circumstances where there is a serious safety concern that cannot reduced or eliminated with reasonable accommodations. Discipline of children in care must never be cruel, humiliating, or otherwise damaging to a child. Appropriate discipline techniques are positive reinforcement, redirection, and realistic expectations and clear and consistent limit setting. The full requirements pertaining to behavior guidance requirements are found in 7 AAC 41.213 and are listed in this section. A child may not be:

1. Removed from the other children for more than ten (10) minutes