An Important Message from The Bureau of Certification

This email newsletter update provides helpful information from the Bureau of Certification.

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The Bureau of Certification is re-issuing the Announcement: C-19-02, Meeting the Requirement of the Child Protective Services Law (CPSL) for Child Care Facilities . The announcement was last issued September 18, 2018 and is being reissued for five primary purposes:

To describe the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) verification certificate
To describe the requirements for current staff, new hires and all volunteers who have resided out of Pennsylvania in the previous five-year period
To describe the revised clearance/verification certificate requirements for volunteers
To clarify for providers their responsibility to submit criminal history documentation for review when documentation shows felony and misdemeanor grade charges and/or convictions of facility person
To announce the elimination of the provisional hire period of new child care workers.

Effective September 30, 2019 all new hires are required to have:

A Pennsylvania Child Abuse History Clearance
PSP Criminal History Clearance
FBI clearance required by DHS
NSOR Verification Certificate
Out of state clearances if they resided outside of Pennsylvania in the past five years.

As of July 1, 2020 all current facility persons, volunteers, household members, and Director/Operator must have obtained the NSOR verification.

Please see the Announcement for additional information.

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and their children, from prenatal through school age, by using data, research and

stakeholder guidance to assure high quality services.