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Child Care Rules and Forms

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Upcoming Policy Changes     

The following rules will be effective as noted below.  They have been through the entire rule making process and are no longer open for public comment or revisions. The rules are posted here for you to access prior to the rules being published and effective. When the rules are published to the eManuals website, they will no longer appear in this section. 

Rules
 
The emanuals website contains all rules, forms, procedure and manual letters.  To receive email notifications for rule and policy updates published to the eManuals site click here
 
Click on the chapter name to go directly to the following rules.
 

For an overview of topics in the Child Care Center rules manual, please refer to this table of contents.

For an overview of topics in the Family Child Care Center rules manual, please refer to this table of contents.   

Before a Rule becomes effective it must go through a clearance process and a public hearing.  
        The following links are updated often:
               Child Care Clearance Items
               Proposed Rules and Public Hearing Notices 
               Click here to register to receive Clearance notifications for ODJFS 
               Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR)  

 

 For an overview of the rule making process, please click here.  

Child Care Forms  

Forms can be accessed from Forms Central at http://www.odjfs.state.oh.us/forms/inter.asp