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(34) Supervision: Care provided to an individual child or a group of children. Adequate supervision requires staff awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child, knowledge of activity requirements, and children’s needs and accountability for their care. Adequate supervision also requires the director, and/or staff being near and having ready access to children in order to intervene when needed. Supervision requires adequate staff to meet staff:child ratios, being in the room at all times or on the playground at all times when children are present. (35) Teacher/Caregiver: Any person whose duties include direct care, supervision, and guidance of children in a child care center. (36) Toddler: A child 12 months of age or older, but younger than 24 months of age. (37) Tracking: A written procedure to account for the presence of each child as the child enters and exits the premises, enters and exits a vehicle, or moves to a new location in or around the center. (38) Training: Participation by child care center staff, in workshops, conferences, educational or provider associations, formal schooling, in-service training, or planned learning opportunities provided by qualified individuals. Training shall be age appropriate for the child population served by the child care center and in such subject areas related to: child care, child growth and development and/or early childhood education, nutrition, infection control/communicable disease management and causes, health and safety, signs and treatment of child abuse and/or neglect and shall include alternatives to corporal punishment. Training for directors may also be in areas related to supervision of child care staff or program administration. (39) Two-year olds: A child 24 months of age or older but younger than 3 years of age. (40) Volunteer: An individual parent, grandparent, other professional or skilled individual artist or crafts person at least 16 years of age infrequently assisting with the daily activities for children in a child care center who provides services without compensation and who is supervised by staff at all times when providing direct care to children. An individual meeting this definition is not required to undergo a fingerprint background check or health screening and is not counted in staff:child ratios. HISTORY: Added by State Register Volume 17, Issue No. 4, eff April 23, 1993. Amended by State Register Volume 29, Issue No. 6, eff June 24, 2005; SCSR 42–6 Doc. No. 4747, eff June 22, 2018. 114–502. Procedures. A. Licensing/approvals (1) Any person, corporation, partnership, voluntary association, or other organization, whether private or public, may secure information about the licensing/approval process by contacting staff of the State or Regional Child Care Licensing Office. (2) An application for a license/approval shall be completed on appropriate Department forms and shall be signed by the director. The Department representative shall provide the applicant with the required number of forms, a copy of current child care center regulations, a copy of Section 63–13–10 et seq., Code of Laws of South Carolina, (Child Care Statute) and a copy of Sections of the Children’s Code related to child abuse and neglect with an explanation of procedures and information required by the Department. The Department representative shall request in writing that health and fire officials make inspections of the facility. (3) After giving the applicant at least two working days’ notice, Department staff shall arrange a licensing/approval study during an on-site visit to the proposed facility for determining compliance with applicable regulations. (4) Health and fire officials shall inspect the facility to determine compliance with appropriate regulations and shall put in writing on appropriate forms the results of their inspections. (5) The Department shall review the completed application form, completed licensing/approval inspection report, completed health and fire inspection reports, current child abuse and criminal history background records checks, written policies and other information specified by the Depart- ment to make a determination of issuance or non-issuance of a license/approval and shall take one of the following actions: (a) Issue a regular license/regular approval if all the provisions of the regulations and statute for the operation of a child care center have been met;