Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-4-125 - Background checks
Each applicant, applicant with a temporary permit, and licensee shall meet the following requirements:
(a) Submit to the department the identifying
information necessary to complete background checks for each individual who
works or regularly volunteers in the facility, each individual at least 10
years of age who resides in the facility, and any other individual in the
facility whose activities involve either supervised or unsupervised access to
children. The identifying information shall be submitted as follows:
(1) When submitting an application for a
license;
(2) when submitting an
application to renew a license; and
(3) before allowing any individual to work,
regularly volunteer, or reside in the facility and before allowing any
individual whose activities involve either supervised or unsupervised access to
children to be in the facility;
(b) ensure that fingerprint-based background
checks are completed for each of the following:
(1) The applicant;
(2) the applicant with a temporary
permit;
(3) the licensee;
(4) each provider in a day care home or group
day care home;
(5) each individual
at least 18 years of age who resides in a day care home or group day care
home;
(6) each employee in a
preschool or child care center;
(7)
each volunteer counted in the staf-child ratio; and
(8) any other individual regularly in the
facility if the individual's activities involve unsupervised access to
children;
(c) ensure
that the information submitted for each individual specified in subsection (b)
includes the required information for background checks from each state of
residence throughout the five-year period before allowing the individual to
work, regularly volunteer, or reside in the facility;
(d) ensure that name-based background checks
by the Kansas bureau of investigation and the Kansas department for children
and families are completed for each of the following:
(1) Each individual at least 10 years of age
who resides in a day care home or group day care home;
(2) each volunteer who is not counted in the
staf-child ratio and whose activities do not involve unsupervised access to
children;
(3) each student of an
accredited secondary or post-secondary school who is at least 16 years of age
and who is participating in an educational experience arranged by the school,
if the student is not counted in the staf-child ratio and does not have
unsupervised access to children; and
(4) any other individual regularly in the
facility whose activities do not involve unsupervised access to children;
and
(e) ensure that no
individual works, regularly volunteers, or resides in the facility until the
results of the individual's background checks verify that the individual is not
prohibited from working, regularly volunteering, or residing in a facility
pursuant to
K.S.A.
65-516, and amendments thereto.
Notes
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