Compliance articles

Can a Colorado daycare employee work while their background check is pending?

No. Colorado's rule is that the check must be successfully completed before a person cares for children — submitted is not completed. There is one narrow day-capped exception, and it is not the one most directors are hoping for.

Colorado's annual child care training hours: fifteen per person, and a different training year for every person

8 CCR 1402-1 2.213(M) sets fifteen clock hours a year with three in social-emotional development, and anchors the year to each employee's own start date — so a centre with forty staff runs forty training years, and 2.213(M)(3) forbids carrying a surplus into the next one. Here is the whole clause, the certificate fields 2.213(M)(4) enumerates, the exclusion we apply that Colorado's centre rule does not state, and the five one-off trainings 2.213 requires, which our credentials model evaluates rather than this training ledger.

Does a CPR-certified person have to be in every classroom, or just in the building?

It depends on your state, and not in the way 'requirements vary' suggests — the duty has four structurally different shapes across the five states we model. North Carolina and Massachusetts cover a whole site with one person. Georgia needs one in every occupied room. Colorado scales with how many children are in attendance. A system that stores 'CPR: yes/no' per staff member cannot answer the question in any of them.

Does every classroom need a CPR-certified staff member in Georgia?

Yes — and the duty is one person per classroom holding both CPR and pediatric first aid, not one of each. The two certifications renew on different clocks, so a compliant roster can drift out of compliance without anyone's card expiring.

Georgia's annual child care training hours: two floors, a ceiling, and why ten hours can still be a finding

591-1-1-.33(5) sets ten clock hours a year — and then constrains the mix three separate ways, including a cap on business-related topics. Ten hours of the wrong training is ten hours and still a finding. Here is the whole rule, the staff it excludes, and the .33 obligation we do not track.

How many annual training hours does North Carolina require? Two people in the same room can owe different amounts

North Carolina sets five annual targets keyed on what a staff member holds, and a second, separate table keyed only on hours worked per week — and .1103(d) lets a staff member elect the lower of the two. Here is the arithmetic, the five-year topic cycle that sits on top of it, and the .1103 obligation we do not track.

How often do daycare background checks need to be renewed?

Federal law sets a five-year re-check floor for four separate background-check components. In three of the five states we model, the number you actually have to follow comes from your own state's text instead.

How often is a Massachusetts EEC background record check required? Every three years — and the number is not in 606 CMR 14.00

The requirement is in the regulation; the three-year interval is in statute. A reference that cites 606 CMR 14.00 for 'every three years' has cited the wrong body of law. Also: the 45-day figure is a submission deadline, not a determination SLA, and Massachusetts' three years beats the federal five.

North Carolina's ITS-SIDS training requirement, and the seven other staff credentials a visit asks for

ITS-SIDS is a live coverage duty in every infant room, and its clock starts when someone is assigned to that room — not when they were hired. Here is what 10A NCAC 09 requires of staff records, with the two deadlines North Carolina anchors to an event rather than a date.

Parent-conference cadence: what Massachusetts and North Carolina actually require, and what the other three states don't

Massachusetts sets one cadence governing two duties, banded by the child's age; North Carolina tiers its star-rated centres by a verified rating and separately owes NC Pre-K classrooms an unconditional family-engagement plan, now evaluated against a verified classroom designation except for the two items its own rule states no interval for. Georgia and South Carolina require no conference at all, and Colorado requires the record without the schedule. Here is each clause, and the two obligations on this page we do not evaluate.

South Carolina daycare fingerprints: the 14-business-day FBI window, and the gap that opens after it

SLED first, then FBI prints within 14 business days of the SLED result. South Carolina sets no renewal interval on any of its background checks, so the only recurring clock is the federal one — and the one re-check trigger South Carolina does state is one we answer the same way for everybody.