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exempt child care centers that receive CCDF subsidy funding are required to obtain ten (10) clock hours of training, annually, which is task-focused in early childhood education or child development or subjects relating to job assignment and is offered by an accredited college, university or vocational program or other Department-approved source. This training should be focused in on-going health, safety, and child development related topics, applicable to the roles and responsibilities of staff in the programs.

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.

c. Licensed family child care homes: 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 various 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.

d. License-exempt family child care homes: N/A e. Regulated or registered in-home child care: In CCDF-eligible regulated (but not licensed) informal in-home care all supervisory and caregiver personnel, shall attend ten (10) clock hours of training annually, which is task-focused in early childhood education or child development or subjects relating to job assignment and is offered by an accredited college, university or vocational program or other Department-approved source.