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7 AAC 57.565. Transportation 7 AAC 57.500. Supervision of children. (a) A child care facility shall ensure that the children in its care receive responsible supervision appropriate to their age and developmental needs. A child care facility shall create a staffing plan, if applicable, and a plan for supervision of children. In its plan for supervision, a child care center shall include indoor, outdoor, and high-risk area supervision, caregiver-to-child ratios, field trips, and a description of the way in which the requirements of (b) of this section will be met. (b) A child care facility shall ensure that children are always under supervision by a caregiver, except when providing a degree of freedom to a school-age child appropriate to the child’s age and developmental level. A school-age child is permitted to participate in activities and visit friends away from the child care facility’s premises as approved by the child’s parents and the child care facility. The facility shall document this approval under (j) of this section. (c) A child care center shall ensure that

(1) children are supervised at all times, including when the children are sleeping;

(2) caregivers are within the same room as and within sight or sound of children, except as permitted by (d)(2) of this section;

(3) caregivers know the whereabouts of the children in their care at all times. (d) A child care center shall ensure that a napping room is used solely for napping during naptime. The area may be used for other purposes at other times of the day. The child care center shall ensure that when the room is used for napping, the room is

(1) staffed with at least one caregiver; in addition, the following requirements apply:

(A) the caregiver who is staffing the napping room must be able to summon help without leaving the room;

(B) other caregivers who are included in the caregiver-to-child ratio required by 7 AAC 57.505 for children in the napping room must be on the same floor as the napping room and able to access the napping room easily, if summoned to help;

(C) if all children are sleeping, the ratio requirement may be changed to twice the number of children per caregiver, based on the youngest child in the group; or

(2) monitored at least every 15 minutes by a caregiver who enters the room to check on the children; if the child care center follows this procedure instead of the procedure in (1) of this subsection, all children must be completely visible through a door or windowed partition, and the napping room must

(A) adjoin another room where staff within ratio requirements is always present