health-and-safety-posting-inspection-reports

Reason(s) for non-compliance: • The Lead Agency does not post full monitoring and inspection reports that include all areas of compliance and non-compliance for all licensed centers, licensed family child care providers, or out-of-school programs, as required by 98.33(a)(4). (Plan Question 5.5.4aii). Please note the Lead Agency has an approved waiver for portions of this requirement through June 30, 2025. Overall Target Completion Date: 02/28/2025 Action Step Number Action Step Description Target Completion Date 1 OCDEL identified requirements in three phases: systems requirements, general systems design, and detailed systems design. 09/30/2024 2 Once all requirements are documented, reviewed, and approved, the technical solutions vendor will develop and test the system modifications. During this phase, OCDEL will work with the business planning vendor to define system test cases. Finalized test cases are required to proceed with user acceptance testing to be conducted by 02/28/2025 OCDEL staff and business partners. Go-live validations will conclude the process. 3 Certification Managers and Supervisors will be advised of the change happening in COMPASS (consumer ed website) to display all regulations, not just areas of non-compliance. Providers will be notified of this change through the Early Ed News- PA’s provider electronic newsletter. 02/28/2025 COMPREHENSIVE BACKGROUND CHECK:5 YEAR RENEWAL Reason(s) for non-compliance: • The Lead Agency’s in-state criminal background checks do not use fingerprints therefore the Lead Agency does not conduct all background checks every 5 years, as required by 98.43(d)(2)(ii). (Plan Question 5.7.17) Overall Target Completion Date: 05/31/2025 Action Step Number Action Step Description Target Completion Date 1 The repository for Pennsylvania criminal history checks was created and is maintained in accordance with Pennsylvania's Criminal History Information Act contained in Chapter 91 of Title 18, Crimes Code. This Act also directs the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) to disseminate criminal history data to criminal justice agencies, non-criminal justice agencies and individuals on request. OCDEL will revisit conversations related to converting the state criminal background checks to a fingerprint based review with the PSP and the Office of Children, Youth and Families. OCDEL is the only office with a federal requirement to use fingerprint based checks for in-state background checks. The PSP name-based check accesses fingerprint records from the FBI database. 05/31/2025