7 MAC Pt. 3, R. 17.4
Day Care Homes Management Plans
Cite as 7 Miss. Admin. Code Pt. 3, R. 17.4
Day Care Homes Management Plans. In the evaluation of management plans
submitted by sponsors of family day care homes, the MDE shall utilize the criteria listed below.
1. Sponsor will define plans for maintaining financial records in accord with generally
accepted accounting principles. The plan shall include written procedures for
documentation of daily accounting functions.
2. Sponsor will provide job descriptions and resumes which demonstrate staff has
education or experience appropriate to task to be performed. The staff shall have
education or experience in the following areas: Management, Accounting, Child Care
and Nutrition.
3. Sponsor will provide one monitor or full-time equivalent staff for each 50 homes. For
each home over/under 50, five hours per month shall be added/subtracted as
appropriate to the monitoring staff.
4. Sponsor will establish and implement administrative plans to:
a. train sponsor staff, train providers,
b. monitor providers,
c. document provider approval,
d. document changes in provider application, and
e. make available to providers access to sponsor staff from the start of the first
day care home meal service to the end of the last meal service.
5. Sponsor will define the geographical area (counties) in which providers under their
sponsorship will operate, and the management plan shall outline a means for daily contact
with providers.