237C.3  Certification standards — consultation with other agencies.
  1.  The department shall consult with the department of education and the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, and other agencies as determined by the department to establish certification standards for children’s residential facilities in accordance with this chapter.
  2.  Standards established by the department under this chapter shall at a minimum address the basic health and educational needs of children; protection of children from mistreatment, abuse, and neglect; background and records checks of persons providing care to children in facilities certified under this chapter; the use of seclusion, restraint, or other restrictive interventions; health; safety; emergency; and the physical premises on which care is provided by a children’s residential facility. The background check requirements shall be substantially equivalent to those applied under chapter 237 for a child foster care facility provider.
  3.  Standards established by the department under this chapter shall not regulate religious education curricula at children’s residential facilities.
2016 Acts, ch 1114, §3; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §752, 1954
Referred to in §237C.4
See Code editor’s note on simple harmonization at the beginning of this Code volume
Subsection 1 amended