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Ark. Code Ann. § 12-86-203

Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education policies

Acts 2007, No. 816, § 3; 2009, No. 165, § 60; 2009, No. 801, § 1.

The Director of the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services shall coordinate efforts with other state agencies and appropriate organizations to:

(1) Share with the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management on a quarterly basis an integrated list of all licensed child care facilities and all known license-exempt child care facilities, including without limitation physical addresses, maximum capacity, emergency contact information, and hours of operation.

(2) The integrated list is to be sorted by county;

(3) Include early childhood emergency preparedness courses and workshops that address specific risk factors and evacuation procedures in particular geographic areas among approved courses and workshops for meeting requirements for in-service training for licensed child care providers in those geographic areas;

(4) Incorporate specific indicators of emergency preparedness linked to specific disaster risk factors in licensed child care providers' geographic areas into each level of any quality ratings above minimum licensing standards; and

(5) Require a child care facility to have a written plan for evacuation in the event of fire, natural disaster, or other threatening situation that may pose a health or safety hazard to the children in the child care facility.

(6) Require the plan to include without limitation: A designated relocation site and evacuation route;

(7) Procedures for notifying parents of the relocation and ensuring family reunification;

(8) Procedures to address the needs of individual children, including children with special needs;

(9) Instructions relating to the training of staff or the reassignment of staff duties, as appropriate;

(10) Coordination with local emergency management officials; and

(11) A program to ensure that appropriate staff are familiar with the plan's components.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.