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Heidi 11:53 AM 04-14-2012
In WI, it's 12 hours for the child (at ONE dcp), and up to 16 for the provider, but we can only provide LICENSED care for 12 hours. The other 4 is ok for certified (less children) or unregulated.

Honestly, they can only really hold a provider to the regulated hours though. If you have chiildren overnight, they can't do much unless the children are subsidized, in which case your records would show you are over hours OR you would be lying and committing fraud. Of course, if you have more than 3 children under 7 in care, you must be regulated, so you couldn't have 4 overnight, lets say, and be in compliance.

To further confuse you all, you could hire your spouse to be a second provider, if he has all the required training. If you are certified, you can sleep when the children sleep, so your husband could be "the provider", and everyone could go to bed at night. However, if you are licensed, a trained provider must be awake at all times (and they DO check). So, in areas where there is a need for 2nd or 3rd shift, people usually get licensed for 12 hours, then certified for the other 12, and the husband takes the minium training, although the wife still does all the childcare, technically (while dad sits on the sofa...you all know the drill....lol).

Breaking any regulation, even during hours you are not regulated, would cost you your license here, plus they would recoup every penny they felt you were overpaid (any time you are out of compliance, you are overpaid per the state) AND you would be kicked out of the food program AND they would recoup all the $ you got.

Whew...it does not pay to break the rules around here...

unless you just never get licenced at all, and then you can apparently do whatever you want, and they just keep sending you nasty letters.
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