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o Related Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care Out of the child’s home (FRO). o Related Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care in the child’s home (FRI). NOTE: The Child Care Scholarship Program may enroll and reimburse regulated center-based, group or family child care providers that operate outside the state of South Carolina, that are also border states (Georgia and North Carolina only) unless the case is a family preservation case. For family preservation cases, child care arrangements may be approved for any state that takes the children from the case. Out of state Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN) providers will be approved only for child protective service and foster care cases and only with prior approval of the arrangement by the designated program staff and human service worker.

5.7.1 REPORTS OF ABUSE AND NEGLECT State law requires a provider to immediately report suspected child abuse or neglect to SCDSS, Department of Child Protective and Preventive Services or local law enforcement. A provider must also notify other SCDSS staff as follows when they have been reported for suspected child abuse or neglect: o Regulated facilities – Report to Child Care Licensing o Exempt Providers – Report to ABC Quality o FFN provider – report to Child Care Scholarship Control Center staff. A client who suspects child abuse or neglect will be directed to contact the SCDSS Department of Child Protective and Preventive Services in the county in which they reside. 5.7.2 PROCESS FOR ENROLLMENT All program specific eligibility criteria, processes and policies for child care providers for approval and participation in the ABC Quality Program may be found by visiting www.abcquality.org.

Upon determination by ABC Quality that the provider meets the qualifications to enroll, ABC Quality forwards the following completed forms to the Control Center:

• Enrollment Form, DSS Form 37108