Includes organizations and programs that provide community based services to individuals under twenty-one in the definition of provider or provider agency regarding the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment.
Establishes procedures regarding orders of post-termination visitation and/or contact between a child and such child's parent and for modification of such orders.
Provides that a caregiver shall be eligible for assistance for child care under the child care block grant regardless of the hours the parent actually works.
Requires the court making a determination of the best interest of the child in custody matters to consider evidence that a child is enrolled in, or that either parent intends to enroll the child in, a nonpublic elementary or secondary school that is noncompliant with the academic requirements set forth in the education law.
Removes certain requirements on what the office of children and family services can determine to be an appropriate staff/child ratios for family day care homes, group family day care homes, school age day care programs and day care centers.
Requires the office of children and family services to determine and then notify the appropriate local child protective service if the subject of an allegation of child abuse or maltreatment is the operator of a licensed day care or similar facility, or if any person named in a report is a known sex offender or has previously been the subject of an indicated report of abuse or neglect.
Establishes standards for caseloads for child protective services workers; requires the state to pay for one hundred percent of the costs associated with compliance of such caseload standard; makes related provisions.
Establishes differential payment rates for child care services provided by licensed, registered or enrolled child care providers for providers providing care to children experiencing homelessness, child care providers providing care during nontraditional hours, or in other situations deemed appropriate by a local social services district.
Expedites the distributions of funds for the supervision and treatment services for juveniles program; requires that eligible municipalities receive the sum equivalent to at least their last approved supervision and treatment services for juveniles program plan.
Relates to differential response programs for child protection assessments or investigations; requires social services districts to establish such programs upon authorization from the office of children and family services.
Relates to mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or maltreatment at summer day camps; includes college coaches, athletic directors, professors, graduate assistants and college presidents among those required to report such suspected abuse or maltreatment.
Establishes the mothers and infants lasting change ("MILC") allowance to provide income to eligible participants for the last three months of pregnancy and the first 18 months of the child's life; excludes income received from the MILC allowance for purposes of supplemental nutrition assistance program eligibility.
Authorizes the fingerprinting of employees of informal child care providers; defines terms; provides that an informal child care provider means a program in a facility, other than a residence, in which child care is provided on a regular basis and is not required to be licensed by or registered with the office or licensed by the city of New York.
Relates to the statewide presumptive eligibility standard; authorizes local social services districts to utilize child care block grant funds for the presumptive eligibility period.