California Education Code 8223 – (a) Contractors operating through a family childcare home …
(a) Contractors operating through a family childcare home education network shall do all of the following:
(1) Recruit, enroll, and certify eligible families.
Terms Used In California Education Code 8223
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Family childcare home education network: means an entity organized under law that contracts with the department to make payments to licensed family childcare home providers and to provide educational and support services to those providers and to children and families eligible for California state preschool program services. See California Education Code 8205
(2) Recruit, train, support, and reimburse licensed family childcare home providers.
(3) Collect family fees in accordance with contract requirements.
(4) Assess, according to standards set by the department, the educational quality of the program offered in each family childcare home in the network.
(5) Assure that a developmental profile is completed for each child based upon observations of network staff, in consultation with the provider.
(6) Monitor requirements, including quality standards, and conduct periodic assessments of program quality in each family childcare home affiliated with the network.
(7) Ensure that basic health and nutrition requirements are met.
(8) Provide data and reporting in accordance with contract requirements.
(b) Each contractor shall ensure that their staff have sufficient training to successfully accomplish the requirements of subdivision (a).
(Added by renumbering Section 8246 by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 49. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)