(225 ILCS 10/7.10)
Sec. 7.10. Progress report.
(a) For the purposes of this Section, "child day care licensing" or "day care licensing" means licensing of day care centers, day care homes, and group day care homes.
(b) No later than September 30th of each year, the Department shall provide the General Assembly with a comprehensive report on its progress in meeting performance measures and goals related to child day care licensing.
(c) The report shall include:
(1) details on the funding for child day care
licensing, including:
(A) the total number of full-time employees
working on child day care licensing;
(B) the names of all sources of revenue used to
support child day care licensing;
(C) the amount of expenditures that is claimed
against federal funding sources;
(D) the identity of federal funding sources; and
(E) how funds are appropriated, including
appropriations for line staff, support staff, supervisory staff, and training and other expenses and the funding history of such licensing since fiscal year 2010;
(2) current staffing qualifications of day care
licensing representatives and day care licensing supervisors in comparison with staffing qualifications specified in the job description;
(3) data history for fiscal year 2010 to the current
fiscal year on day care licensing representative caseloads and staffing levels in all areas of the State;
(4) per the DCFS Child Day Care Licensing Advisory
Council's work plan, quarterly data on the following measures:
(A) the percentage of new applications disposed
of within 90 days;
(B) the percentage of licenses renewed on time;
(C) the percentage of day care centers receiving
timely annual monitoring visits;
(D) the percentage of day care homes receiving
timely annual monitoring visits;
(E) the percentage of group day care homes
receiving timely annual monitoring visits;
(F) the percentage of provider requests for
supervisory review;
(G) the progress on adopting a key indicator
system;
(H) the percentage of complaints disposed of
within 30 days;
(I) the average number of days a day care center
applicant must wait to attend a licensing orientation;
(J) the number of licensing orientation sessions
available per region in the past year; and
(K) the number of Department trainings related to
licensing and child development available to providers in the past year; and
(5) efforts to coordinate with the Department of
Human Services and the State Board of Education on professional development, credentialing issues, and child developers, including training registry, child developers, and Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS).
(d) The Department shall work with the Governor's appointed Early Learning Council on issues related to and concerning child day care.
(Source: P.A. 97-1096, eff. 8-24-12; 98-839, eff. 1-1-15.)
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