Child Care Rulemaking Projects

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2023 Rule Revisions - updated 3/2023

Background

The department is revising child care licensing rules affecting chapters DCF 250, 251, and 252. The primary purpose of the rule revisions is to accurately reflect the nature of school-age child care in DCF 251. However, while make those revisions, we also proposed revisions for DCF 250, 252, and other 251 rules. 

In December 2021 through January 2022, we solicited comments on the proposed rules affecting licensed family child care, group child care, and day camps for children. DCF held a hearing on January 5. The department reviewed all comments submitted on the proposed rule revisions and made many revisions to the rules in response to the comments. The best way to review those changes is to review the Hearing Summary document listed below, which includes a summary of the comments made, the department’s response, and any rule changes made.

The following documents are for your review; please read through them carefully.

Resources

Rule revisions will be effective March 1, 2023. Below are resources and tools for child care providers and stakeholders to review as we make this transition. As a note, track changes are used to show which rules were deleted or moved to another section in strikethrough text and which was added in underlined text.

Family Child Care Resources 

Group Child Care and Public School Operated Program Resources

Day Camps for Children Resources

Radon Resources

Training 

The department will be offering regional in person and virtual trainings in February and March. Below is a table with information about the date, time, and locations of upcoming trainings. As more information becomes available, it will be added. If you have any questions, please contact your regional licensing specialist

Additionally, the department has created an online, interactive training for each rule group. These trainings may be taken in combination with a regional training or may be taken on their own. 

Formación en español

 

Region

Date

Time

Location

Rule Groups Covered

Northeastern

February 27

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Family and Childcare Resources of Northeast Wisconsin & virtual

( In-person cancelled due to weather)

Group CC

 

March 1

6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Family and Childcare Resources of Northeast Wisconsin & virtual

Family CC

 

April

TBD

TBD

Day Camps

Northern

March 1

4:30 p.m.

In person and virtual,
Wausau, Marathon County Public Library-Wausau Community Room

Group CC

 

March 1

6 p.m.

In person and virtual,
Wausau, Marathon County Public Library-Wausau Community Room

Family CC

 

March 7

4:30 p.m.

In person and virtual, Rhinelander, Oneida County Sheriff’s Office-Community Room

Group CC

 

March 7

6 p.m.

In person and virtual, Rhinelander, Oneida County Sheriff’s Office-Community Room

Family CC

Southeastern

February 22

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

4C For Children & virtual

( In-person cancelled due to weather)

Family CC

 

March 8

12:30 – 2:30 p.m.

4C For Children & virtual

Group CC

Southern

March 4

9 – 10 a.m. (Family)

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Group)

4C

Family & Group CC (Spanish)

 

March 7

6:30 p.m.

Virtual

Family CC (Spanish)

 

March 8

6:30 p.m.

Virtual

Group CC (Spanish)

 

March 9

1 p.m.

Virtual

Group CC

 

March 11

9 – 10 a.m. (Family)

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Group)

4C

Family & Group CC (English)

 

March 14

6:30 p.m.

Virtual

Family CC

 

March 21

6:30 p.m.

Virtual

Group CC

 

March 23

1 p.m.

Virtual

(Cancelled)

Day Camps

Western

March 8

10 a.m.

Western Dairyland Child Care Partnership & virtual

Group CC

 

March 8

6 p.m.

Western Dairyland Child Care Partnership & virtual

Family CC