N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 18 § 414.7

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 45, November 2, 2024

Section 414.7 - Program requirements

(a) A written daily schedule of program activities and routines is required.

(1) The program must establish and implement a written daily schedule of an organized, informal and nonscholastic program activities appropriate to the age, needs and interests of the children, including children with disabilities. There must be physical activity, appropriate to the ages of the children in care, every day.

(b) Children must receive instruction, consistent with their age, needs and circumstances, in techniques and procedures which will enable them to protect themselves from abuse and maltreatment.

(c) The program must make a sufficient quantity and variety of materials and play equipment available to the children. Such materials and equipment must be appropriate to the ages of the children and their developmental levels and interests, including children with developmental delays or disabilities, and promote the children's cognitive, educational, social, cultural, physical, emotional, language and recreational development.

(d) Children may not spend the majority of their program time in rooms used solely for activities where children will be seated while working on a particular activity or skill.

(e) Children must be provided an opportunity to choose between quiet activities and active play.

(f) Children must be provided with a program of self-initiated, group-initiated and staff-initiated activities which are intellectually stimulating, and foster self-reliance and social responsibility.

(g) Program activities which offer reasonable regularity in routines, including snack and meal periods, quiet activities and active play, and activities which provide children with opportunities for learning and self-expression is required.

(h) If television or other electronic visual media is used, it must be part of a planned developmentally appropriate program with an educational, social, physical or other learning objective that includes identified goals and objectives. Television and other electronic visual media must not be used solely to occupy time.

(1) Television and other electronic visual media must be turned off when not part of a planned developmentally appropriate program activity.

(2) Children must not watch television or other electronic visual media during meals.

(3) Children's exposure to age and developmentally appropriate television and other screen time activities must be balanced with other program components that engage children in active physical, intellectual and creative activities.

(i) At the time of the child's admission to the program, the program must furnish parents with appropriate instructional materials that will assist them in evaluating the program, and its staff. Such materials must include information concerning child abuse and maltreatment, and guidance on the steps the parent may take if they suspect their child has been abused or maltreated.

(j) The program must offer information about other community resources to families when they are in need of supportive social services not otherwise provided by the school age child care program.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 18 § 414.7

Amended New York State Register June 3, 2020/Volume XLII, Issue 22, eff. 6/3/2020