For both in-home and out-of-home care, you must develop policies
specifically for babysitters, overnight care providers, and respite
care providers that include:
(1) Minimum age for each type of provider;
(2) Minimum amount and type of prior child-care experience
that each type of provider must have;
(3) Amount and type of training each type of provider
must have;
(4) Reference and background information that foster
parents or you must obtain before using each type of provider;
(5) Number of children that each type of provider can
care for;
(6) Information that the foster parents must share
with a provider, including information about the children in care
and emergency contact information for the foster parent and the agency;
(7) Specific care instructions that the foster parents
must share with a provider for children with treatment needs;
(8) A method for contact between the foster parent
(and/or the child-placing agency) and provider during the time of
the provider's care;
(9) Procedures for agency review and approval of arrangements;
and
(10) Requirements for documentation of arrangements,
including agency child placement staff review and approval, in the
foster home record.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §749.127 adopted to be effective January 1, 2017, 41 TexReg 9944; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909 |
