FL DCF UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● DCF Responsibilities
Answer: Administration of child care licensing and training
Ensuring children are well cared for in a safe, healthy, positive, and
educational environment by trained, qualified child care staff
This agency determines state rules pertaining to child care and enforces
these rules by licensing and inspecting child care facilities.
●● Child Care Professionals Roles and Responsibilities
Answer: -must know, understand, and follow the laws and the rules and
regulations to protect the health and safety of children in care
-keep children safe
-provide good nutrition and a healthy environment
-create a quality environment for learning
●● Name the key agencies that partner with the Department to regulate
child care.
Answer: Local Fire Departments / Certified Fire Safety Inspectors
,County Agencies
Local Licensing Agencies
●● Child care laws, rules, and regulations are in place to protect
Answer: children, families, and child care professionals
●● Office of Child Care Regulation and Background Screening
Answer: licensing authority, regulates licensed child care facilities in
most counties in Florida
●● Local County Government Agencies
Answer: Effect childcare through Zoning and Building, Septic and Well,
Etc...
●● City/Municipal Police Dept.
Answer: Effect childcare through back ground checks and screenings of
child care providers
●● Child Care
Answer: care, protection and supervision of a child for a period of less
than 24 hours on a regular basis, which supplements parental care,
enrichment, and health supervision for the child in accordance with his
or her individual needs, and for which a payment, fee or grant is made
for care. (Defined in 402.302)
,●● DCF's Office of Child Care Regulations mission:
Answer: To ensure the health, safety, and well being of the children of
the state while in care through licensing and regulatory activities
●● The licensing standards established by the Department address
Answer: Physical Environment (health, sanitation, safety, and physical
surroundings)
Children in Care (health, nutrition, and development)
●● Regulation
Answer: a law, rule, ordinance, or other order prescribed by authority to
regulate conduct
●● What is the intent of the Legislature?
Answer: To protect the health and welfare of children
To develop
a regulatory framework that promotes the growth and stability of the
child care industry and facilitates the safe physical, intellectual, motor,
and social development of the child.
●● Child Care Regulation Program
Answer: is responsible for regulating programs that provide services that
meet the statutory definition of "child care." This is accomplished
, through the inspection of licensed child care programs to ensure the
consistent statewide application of child care standards established in
statute and rule, and the registration of child care providers not subject to
inspection.
●● Minimum Age Requirements
Answer: A staff person at least 21 years of age must be in charge of the
program and must be on
the premises at all times during operating hours.
●● Mixed Age Groups
Answer: A. In groups of mixed age ranges, where children under one
year of age are
included, one staff member must be responsible for no more than four
children
of any age group, at all times.
B. In groups of mixed age ranges, where children one year of age but
under two
years of age are included, one staff member must be responsible for no
more
than six children of any age group, at all times
●● In addition to the number of staff required to meet the staff-to-child
ratio,
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
●● DCF Responsibilities
Answer: Administration of child care licensing and training
Ensuring children are well cared for in a safe, healthy, positive, and
educational environment by trained, qualified child care staff
This agency determines state rules pertaining to child care and enforces
these rules by licensing and inspecting child care facilities.
●● Child Care Professionals Roles and Responsibilities
Answer: -must know, understand, and follow the laws and the rules and
regulations to protect the health and safety of children in care
-keep children safe
-provide good nutrition and a healthy environment
-create a quality environment for learning
●● Name the key agencies that partner with the Department to regulate
child care.
Answer: Local Fire Departments / Certified Fire Safety Inspectors
,County Agencies
Local Licensing Agencies
●● Child care laws, rules, and regulations are in place to protect
Answer: children, families, and child care professionals
●● Office of Child Care Regulation and Background Screening
Answer: licensing authority, regulates licensed child care facilities in
most counties in Florida
●● Local County Government Agencies
Answer: Effect childcare through Zoning and Building, Septic and Well,
Etc...
●● City/Municipal Police Dept.
Answer: Effect childcare through back ground checks and screenings of
child care providers
●● Child Care
Answer: care, protection and supervision of a child for a period of less
than 24 hours on a regular basis, which supplements parental care,
enrichment, and health supervision for the child in accordance with his
or her individual needs, and for which a payment, fee or grant is made
for care. (Defined in 402.302)
,●● DCF's Office of Child Care Regulations mission:
Answer: To ensure the health, safety, and well being of the children of
the state while in care through licensing and regulatory activities
●● The licensing standards established by the Department address
Answer: Physical Environment (health, sanitation, safety, and physical
surroundings)
Children in Care (health, nutrition, and development)
●● Regulation
Answer: a law, rule, ordinance, or other order prescribed by authority to
regulate conduct
●● What is the intent of the Legislature?
Answer: To protect the health and welfare of children
To develop
a regulatory framework that promotes the growth and stability of the
child care industry and facilitates the safe physical, intellectual, motor,
and social development of the child.
●● Child Care Regulation Program
Answer: is responsible for regulating programs that provide services that
meet the statutory definition of "child care." This is accomplished
, through the inspection of licensed child care programs to ensure the
consistent statewide application of child care standards established in
statute and rule, and the registration of child care providers not subject to
inspection.
●● Minimum Age Requirements
Answer: A staff person at least 21 years of age must be in charge of the
program and must be on
the premises at all times during operating hours.
●● Mixed Age Groups
Answer: A. In groups of mixed age ranges, where children under one
year of age are
included, one staff member must be responsible for no more than four
children
of any age group, at all times.
B. In groups of mixed age ranges, where children one year of age but
under two
years of age are included, one staff member must be responsible for no
more
than six children of any age group, at all times
●● In addition to the number of staff required to meet the staff-to-child
ratio,
