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Care Services (CCS) are onboarded and trained to be able to complete all aspects of the job, no matter the role or unit/region in which they are hired. Therefore, when fully staffed, child care licensing consultants have a caseload of approximately 50 providers. This average is based on the total number of consultant-level staff within the CCS division of the Lead Agency. Some of the consultant staff have been identified for specialized work duties (i.e., initial licensure processes, critical complaint investigations, and training) but they are still able to assist with completing program inspections as needed or required. This ratio allows for timely and thorough unannounced inspections of all licensed and license-exempt providers annually. In addition to those inspections, licensing staff also conduct unannounced monitoring visits and complaint investigations, as well as scheduled prelicensure visits to monitor for health and safety compliance with rules and regulations. 5.6 Ongoing Health and Safety Training Lead Agencies must have ongoing training requirements for all caregivers, teachers, and directors of eligible CCDF providers for health and safety standards but have discretion on frequency and training content (e.g., pediatric CPR refresher every year and recertification every 2 years). Lead Agencies have discretion on which health and safety standards are subject to ongoing training. Lead Agencies may exempt relative providers from these requirements. 5.6.1 Required ongoing training of health and safety standards Describe any required ongoing training of health and safety standards for caregivers, teachers, and directors of the following CCDF eligible provider types. a. Licensed child care centers: The Lead Agency requires that every calendar year after the first year of employment, all supervisory and caregiver personnel, except independent contractors, students-in-training, and volunteers, shall attend ten (10) clock hours of diverse training which is task-focused in on-going health, safety, and early childhood or child development related topics and which is offered by an accredited college, university, vocational program, or other department-approved source. The annual ten (10) clock hours of training shall be chosen from the following fields: child development, including discipline, guidance, nutrition, injury control, and safety; health, including sanitation, disease control, cleanliness, detection and disposition of illness; child abuse and neglect, including identification and reporting, and meeting the needs of abused and/or neglected children; and business related topics, including parental communication, recordkeeping, etc.; provided however that such business related training shall be limited to no more than two (2) of the required ten (10) clock hours of training. Records of completion of such training shall be maintained, as required by these rules.

The Lead Agency works with the Georgia Training Approval System to ensure all private training vendors are creating training that is relevant and current to best practices and incorporating all health and safety topics required by the rule.

Child care licensing staff are trained to evaluate training certificates of staff during annual licensing inspections to ensure that a variety of on-going health and safety topics are taken as part of the on-going annual training requirement.

b. License-exempt child care centers: All supervisory and caregiver personnel in license-