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to monitor nor take any responsibility for situations resulting in unfulfilled safety standards. Since both parties will have been made aware of potential problems, their signatures acknowledge that they have been made aware of the safety inadequacies and will take total responsibility for any incidents arising from unfulfilled safety standards. • Have completed, signed, and returned the form that verifies the children in care meet the Department of Health's immunization standards. • Have completed, signed, and returned the form that certifies the provider has read the provider manual, has shared the information concerning child immunizations with the parents, is at least 18 years old, and is providing child care services only for the children from one particular family.

The relative provider forms are sent to the applicant. The applicant must ensure the relative provider completes and returns the forms within 10 days.

In addition to the requirements above, the following must also be met: • Non-resident siblings must maintain a separate residence but may provide care in their own home or the applicant’s home. • A relative providing care for other children that do not fall within the relationship requirements shall be considered an unregistered Family Day Care provider. Unregistered Family Day Care providers are not a CCA eligible provider.

11.3.2 Relative Provider Process When a family requests to use a relative provider, the EABS must verify that the relationship between the children in need of care and the provider meets the established relationship criteria. The EABS will request verification of the provider’s relationship to the child on the RFI. This can be verified through birth certificates, adoption records, marriage licenses, court documents, or other documents showing parentage. If the provider meets the relative criteria, and the requested relative provider forms are received, then the EABS will clear the verifications and notify an Elevated Worker by creating a task for the Child Care State Office Queue to add the new relative provider to BEES provider management. Once the relative provider has been added to BEES, the Elevated worker will create a task for the EABS or regional queue who owns the application.

11.4 Requirements & Process for In-Home or Informal Providers

11.4.1 In-Home or Informal Provider Requirements In-home and Informal child care providers will be systematically referred to OLA and must cooperate with them to meet minimum program requirements in order to be eligible for reimbursement. The requirements are as follows: • Be at least 18 years old. • Submit to an in-state, national, and out of state background check and comply with the requirements of 67:42:17:13 for any individual who cares for or supervises a child or has unsupervised access to a child. These include: o Request for a central registry screening for child abuse and neglect o DCI Fingerprint Check o FBI Fingerprint Check o NCIC Check o In-state Sex offender Registry Check • Out-of-state screening for anyone who has lived outside of South Dakota in the previous 5 years. This screening includes a state repository check, state sex offender registry check and state central registry screening. • Have documented orientation training within 90 days after the receipt of the application in at least the following areas: