Page 92

(15) Operator: The person eighteen (18) years or older, who lives in the home and has signed and submitted a Department application form and other requirements to the Department in order to obtain a family child care home registration or license. The operator has the ultimate responsibility of the family child care home and must be the person in charge of supervising the children in the family child care home. (16) Overnight Care. Care provided to children by the family child care home defined in these regulations from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. (17) Parent. The biological or adoptive mother and father, legal guardian of the child or individual with legal custody of the child. (18) Registration: A written notice issued by the Department for a one-year period to a family child care home approving the commencement of operations of a family child care home in accordance with these regulations. (19) Regularly or on a regular basis: These terms refer to the frequency with which child care services are available and provided at a family child care home in any one week; these terms mean the availability and provision of periods of child care on more than two days in such week. (20) Related: Any of the following relationships by marriage, blood, or adoption: parent, grand- parent, brother, sister, stepparent, stepsister, stepbrother, uncle, aunt, or cousin of the first degree. (21) Renewal: Granting an extension of registration or license. (22) Revocation: To void the regular license of a family child care home. (23) Sex Offender Registry: A statewide and national computerized listing of names and other identifying information on convicted sex offenders maintained and updated by the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) and authorized by Section 23–3–400 et. seq., Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, amended. The National Sex Offender Registry, established under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, Pub.L. 109–248, requires anyone convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor or a sexually violent offense to register as a sex offender. (24) Staff. Full-time and part-time administrative, program, service and volunteer personnel, including emergency persons. (25) Supervision: Care provided to an individual child or group of children. Adequate supervision requires 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 operator and/or staff being near and having ready access to children in order to intervene when needed. (26) Training: Participation by operators and caregivers during the calendar year in workshops, conferences, support groups, educational or provider associations, formal schooling, in-service training or planned learning opportunities provided by a child day care operator, director, other staff, or consultants. Training shall be age appropriate for the child population served by the family child care home 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. Training for operators may also be in areas related to day care program administration and shall include alternatives to corporal punishment. (27) Volunteer: An individual parent, grandparent, other professional or skilled individual artist or crafts person at least sixteen (16) years of age infrequently assisting with the daily activities for children in a family child care home who provides services without compensation and who is supervised by an operator or caregiver at all times when providing direct care to children. An individual meeting this definition is subject to compliance with the same applicable regulations as paid family child care home caregivers. (28) Withdrawal: To void the registration of a registered family child care home. HISTORY: Added by SCSR 48–5 Doc. No. 5229, eff May 24, 2024. 114–531. Procedures. A. Application for a Registration