(a) Daily attendance record. A daily attendance record shall be kept in a form provided or approved by the Department. Daily entries must include at a minimum each child's name and arrival and departure time.
(b) Daily health inspections. A health inspection of each child shall be made daily by the educational director, designated teachers, shelter child care liaisons, or child supervisors who are familiar with such child and trained to recognize signs or symptoms of illnesses in accordance with guidelines or training provided or approved by the Department.
(c) Management of ill children and reporting.
(1) An area shall be provided for separating ill children under direct adult supervision until parents remove children from the program.
(2) The Department must be notified by the permittee within 24 hours of the occurrence of a death or serious injury to a child while in the care or supervision of the program.
(3) When any child is unexpectedly absent from the program, the permittee must notify the child's parent of the absence by telephone, text or e-mail message or other means of immediate communication within one hour of the child's scheduled time of arrival and must maintain a record of having made such notification and the information obtained in the log required by 24 RCNY Health Code § 47.29(d).
(d) Parent reports of absences. Permittees must notify parents when children are initially enrolled in the program that parents must report children's absences to the program as follows:
(1) Daily. Parents must notify the program prior to their child's scheduled arrival time, but no later than one hour after the scheduled arrival time, that a child will not be attending the program that day.
(2) Communicable diseases. Parents must report to the permittee within 24 hours of such absence of any absence for: chicken pox, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, diphtheria, food poisoning, hepatitis, haemophilus influenza type b infection, impetigo, measles, meningitis (all types), meningococcal disease, Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), mumps, pertussis (whooping cough), poliomyelitis, rubella (German measles), salmonella, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, or any other disease or condition which may be a danger to the health of other children. Such disease or condition shall not include acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
(e) Reports of vaccine preventable illnesses. The permittee shall report to the Department by telephone, within 24 hours, any child who has any vaccine preventable illness, or meningitis or tuberculosis, or if there is any outbreak or unusual occurrence of any disease or condition at the facility.
(f) Isolation and exclusion pursuant to 24 RCNY Health Code Article 11. The permittee must isolate or exclude any child, staff or volunteer who is suspected or confirmed with, or has been exposed to, a communicable disease requiring isolation or exclusion under 24 RCNY Health Code Article 11. A child, staff or volunteer who has been excluded must not be permitted to return to the child care program without a written statement from a health care provider indicating that the child, staff member or volunteer is free from such disease in communicable form and that the period of isolation or exclusion required by 24 RCNY Health Code Article 11 has ended. Any child, staff or volunteer isolated or excluded pursuant to this subdivision must be reported to the Department.
(Amended City Record 9/20/2017, eff. 10/10/2017; amended City Record 12/26/2019, eff. 1/25/2020)