Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -

• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 1
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Child Care Act of 1969. (Source: P.A. 76-63.)
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2
  Terms used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meanings ascribed to them in the Sections following this Section and preceding Section...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.01
  Child. "Child" means any person under 18 years of age. For purposes of admission to and residence in child care institutions, group homes, and...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.01a
  "Homeless youth" has the same meaning as in Section 5 of "An Act creating the Department of Children and Family Services, codifying its powers...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.02
  "Department" means the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. (Source: P.A. 76-63.)
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.03
  "Guardian" means the guardian of the person of a minor. (Source: P.A. 76-63.)
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.04
  "Related" means any of the following relationships by blood, marriage, civil union, or adoption: parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, great-uncle, great-aunt, brother, sister, stepgrandparent, stepparent, stepbrother, stepsister,...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.05
  "Facility for child care" or "child care facility" means any person, group of persons, agency, association, organization, corporation, institution, center, or group, whether established for...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.06
  "Child care institution" means a child care facility where more than 7 children are received and maintained for the purpose of providing them with care...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.07
  "Maternity center" means a facility in which any person, agency, or corporation other than one licensed as a foster family home or group home...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.08
  "Child welfare agency" means a public or private child care facility, receiving any child or children for the purpose of placing or arranging for...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.09
  "Day care center" means any child care facility which regularly provides day care for less than 24 hours per day for (1) more than...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.10
  "Part day child care facility" means a facility for which written notification has been filed pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 3 of this...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.11
  "Day care agency" means any person, group of persons, public or private agency, association or organization which undertakes to provide one or more day...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.16
  "Group home" means a child care facility which provides care for no more than 10 children placed by and under the supervision of a...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.17
  "Foster family home" means a facility for child care in residences of families who receive no more than 8 children unrelated to them, unless all...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.18
  "Day care homes" means family homes which receive more than 3 up to a maximum of 12 children for less than 24 hours per...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.20
  "Group day care home" means a family home which receives more than 3 up to a maximum of 16 children for less than 24...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.21
  "Youth Emergency Shelter" means a child care facility licensed by the Department to provide overnight shelter, and referral for other services, to homeless youth...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.22
  "Secure child care facility" means any child care facility licensed by the Department to provide secure living arrangements for children under 18 years of age...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.23
  "Adoption-only home" means a family home that receives only children whose parents' parental rights have been terminated or surrendered for the purpose of adoption...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.24
  "Adoption services" includes any one or more of the following services performed for any type of compensation or thing of value, directly or indirectly: (i)...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.25
  "Unlicensed pre-adoptive and adoptive home" means any home that is not licensed by the Department as a foster family home and that receives a child...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.26
  "Eligible agency" means a licensed child welfare agency that (i) is currently fully accredited by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services (COA)...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.27
  "Deemed compliant" means that an eligible agency is presumed to be in compliance with requirements, provided that the Department has determined that current COA standards...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.28
  Non-licensed service provider. "Non-licensed service provider" means an individual or entity that contracts with the Department to provide child welfare services that enable the Department...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 2.29
  Volunteer. "Volunteer" means a person who performs a service willingly and without pay. (Source: P.A. 98-570, eff. 8-27-13.)
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 3
  (a) No person, group of persons or corporation may operate or conduct any facility for child care, as defined in this Act, without a...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 3.1
  Licenses for secure child care facility. The Department shall establish standards for licensing secure child care facilities which comply with the requirements of this...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 3.5
  Group homes for adolescents diagnosed with autism. (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department of Human Services, Developmental Disabilities Division, shall provide for the establishment of...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 4
  License requirement; application; notice. (a) Any person, group of persons or corporation who or which receives children or arranges for care or placement of one...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 4.1
  Criminal Background Investigations. The Department shall require that each child care facility license applicant as part of the application process, and each employee and volunteer...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 4.2
  (a) No applicant may receive a license from the Department and no person may be employed by a licensed child care facility who refuses to...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 4.3
  Child Abuse and Neglect Reports. All child care facility license applicants and all current and prospective employees of a child care facility who have...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 4.4
  For the purposes of background investigations authorized in this Act, "license applicant" means the operator or person with direct responsibility for daily operation of...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 4.5
  Children with disabilities; training. (a) An owner or operator of a licensed day care home or group day care home or the onsite executive...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 5
  (a) In respect to child care institutions, maternity centers, child welfare agencies, day care centers, day care agencies and group homes, the Department, upon receiving...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 5.1
  (a) The Department shall ensure that no day care center, group home or child care institution as defined in this Act shall on a regular...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 5.2
  Unsafe children's products. (a) A child care facility may not use or have on the premises, on or after July 1, 2000, an unsafe children's...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 5.3
  Lunches in day care homes. In order to increase the affordability and availability of day care, a day care home licensed under this Act...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 5.5
  Smoking in day care facilities. (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that: (1) The U.S. government has determined that secondhand tobacco smoke is...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 5.6
  Pesticide and lawn care product application at day care centers. (a) Licensed day care centers shall abide by the requirements of Sections 10.2 and 10.3...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 5.7
  Fire inspections; authority. (a) Per the requirements of Public Act 96-1141, on January 1, 2011 a report titled "Streamlined Auditing and Monitoring for Community Based...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 5.8
  Radon testing of licensed day care centers, licensed day care homes, and licensed group day care homes. (a) Effective January 1, 2013, licensed day care...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 6
  (a) A licensed facility operating as a "child care institution", "maternity center", "child welfare agency", "day care agency" or "day care center" must apply...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 7
  (a) The Department must prescribe and publish minimum standards for licensing that apply to the various types of facilities for child care defined in this...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 7.1
  (a) (1) A facility described in Section 2.09, 2.10, or 2.18 shall retain on file a list provided by the legal guardian of each...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 7.2
  Employer discrimination. (a) For purposes of this Section, "employer" means a licensee or holder of a permit subject to this Act. "Employee" means an...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 7.3
  Children placed by private child welfare agency. (a) Before placing a child who is a ward of the Department in a foster family home,...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 7.4
  Disclosures. (a) Every child welfare agency providing adoption services and licensed by the Department shall provide to all prospective clients and to the public written...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 7.5
  Adoptive parent training program. Every licensed child welfare agency providing adoption services shall provide prospective adoptive parents with a training program that includes counseling and...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 7.6
  Annual report. Every licensed child welfare agency providing adoption services shall file an annual report with the Department and with the Attorney General on forms...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 7.7
  Certain waivers prohibited. Licensed child welfare agencies providing adoption services shall not require biological or adoptive parents to sign any document that purports to waive...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 7.8
  Preferential treatment in child placement prohibited. No licensed child welfare agency providing adoption services may give preferential treatment to its board members, contributors, volunteers, employees,...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 7.9
  Excessive fees in adoption services prohibited. Adoption services fees must be based on the costs associated with service delivery, and clients may be charged fees...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 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...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 8
  The Department may revoke or refuse to renew the license of any child care facility or child welfare agency or refuse to issue full license...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 8.1
  The Department shall revoke or refuse to renew the license of any child care facility or refuse to issue a full license to the...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 8.2
  The Department may issue a conditional license to any child care facility which currently is licensed under this Act. The conditional license shall be...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 8.3
  Tax exempt agency. (a) The Department shall revoke or refuse to renew the license of any child welfare agency providing adoption services that is not...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 8.4
  Cessation or dissolution of an agency. In the event that a licensed child welfare agency ceases to exist or dissolves its corporate entity as an...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 9
  Prior to revocation or refusal to renew a license, the Department shall notify the licensee by registered mail with postage prepaid, at the address...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 9.1
  Before the Department initiates a full-scale investigation of any complaint received regarding a child care facility the Department may, when appropriate, provide procedures for...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 9.1a
  Complaint registry. (a) The Department shall establish a complaint registry to assist in the monitoring of licensed child welfare agencies providing adoption services, which shall...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 9.1b
  Complaint procedures. All child welfare agencies providing adoption services shall be required by the Department to have complaint policies and procedures that shall be provided...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 9.2
  Toll free number; day care information. The Department of Children and Family Services shall establish and maintain a statewide toll-free telephone number that all...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 10
  Any circuit court, upon application either of the person requesting a hearing or of the Department, may require the attendance of witnesses and the...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 11
  Whenever the Department is advised, or has reason to believe, that any person, group of persons or corporation is operating a child welfare agency or...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 11.1
  Referrals to law enforcement. (a) If the Department has reasonable cause to believe that any person, group of persons, corporation, agency, association, organization, institution, center,...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 11.2
  Whenever the Department expressly finds that the continued operation of a child care facility, including such facilities defined in Section 2.10 and unlicensed facilities,...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 12
  Advertisements. (a) In this Section, "advertise" means communication by any public medium originating or distributed in this State, including, but not limited to, newspapers, periodicals,...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 13
  Whenever a child is placed in or with a child care institution or in or with a child welfare agency, the placement shall, whenever...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 14.5
  Offering, providing, or co-signing a loan or other credit accommodation. No person or entity shall offer, provide, or co-sign a loan or other credit accommodation,...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 14.6
  Agency payment of salaries or other compensation. (a) A licensed child welfare agency may pay salaries or other compensation to its officers, employees, agents, contractors,...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 14.7
  Payments to biological parents. (a) Payment of reasonable living expenses by a child welfare agency shall not obligate the biological parents to place the child...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 15
  Every child care facility must keep and maintain such records as the Department may prescribe pertaining to the admission, progress, health and discharge of children...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 16
  (a) Any child care facility receiving a child for care or supervision from a foreign state or country shall report that child to the...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 17
  The Administrative Review Law and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, applies to and governs all proceedings for the judicial review of final administrative decisions...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 18
  Any person, group of persons, association or corporation who (1) conducts, operates or acts as a child care facility without a license or permit...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 19
  Any license issued under the "Child Care Act", approved July 10, 1957, as amended, remains valid until its expiration date or until revoked by...
• Illinois Child Care Act of 1969. - 225 ILCS 10, Section 20
  Should any Section, subdivision, clause, phrase or provision of this Act be held unconstitutional or invalid for any reason whatsoever, that holding shall not...

Last modified: February 18, 2015