Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 ILCS 10 — Child Care Act of 1969.

This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Child Care Act of 1969

This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Child Care Act of 1969. (Source: P.A. 76-63.)

Terms used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meanings ascribed to them in the Sections following this Section and preceding Section 3

Terms used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meanings ascribed to them in the Sections following this Section and preceding Section 3. (Source: P.A. 98-756, eff. 7-16-14.)

Child

Child. "Child" means any person under 18 years of age. For purposes of admission to and residence in child care institutions, group homes, and maternity centers, the term also means any person under 21 years of age who is referred by a parent or guardian, including an agency having legal responsibility for the person p…

Youth in care

Youth in care. "Youth in care" has the meaning ascribed to that term in Section 4d of the Children and Family Services Act. (Source: P.A. 100-159, eff. 8-18-17.)

"Department" means the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services

"Department" means the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. (Source: P.A. 76-63.)

"Guardian" means the guardian of the person of a minor

"Guardian" means the guardian of the person of a minor. (Source: P.A. 76-63.)

"Related" means any of the following relationships by blood, marriage, civil union, or adoption: parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, great-uncle, great-aunt, brother, sister, stepgrandparent, stepparent, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, fictive kin as defined in Section 7 of the Children and Fam…

"Facility for child care" or "child care facility" means any person, group of persons, agency, association, organization, corporation, institution, center, or group, whether established for gain or otherwise, who or which receives or arranges for care or placement of one or more children, unrelated to the operator of t…

"Child care institution" means a child care facility where more than 7 children are received and maintained for the purpose of providing them with care or training or both

"Child care institution" means a child care facility where more than 7 children are received and maintained for the purpose of providing them with care or training or both. The term "child care institution" includes residential schools, primarily serving ambulatory children with disabilities, and those operating a full…

"Maternity center" means a facility in which any person, agency, or corporation other than one licensed as a foster family home or group home under this Act, receives, treats or cares for one or more unwed pregnant girls under 18 years of age, except that the term does not include any facility licensed under the "Hospi…

"Child welfare agency" means a public or private child care facility, receiving any child or children for the purpose of placing or arranging for the placement or free care of the child or children in foster family homes, unlicensed pre-adoptive and adoptive homes, adoption-only homes, or other facilities for child car…

"Early care and education center" means any early care and education provider that regularly provides early care and education for (1) more than 8 children in a family home, or (2) more than 3 children in a location other than a family home, including senior citizen buildings. (Source: P.A. 103-153, eff. 6-30-23; 103-5…

"Group home" means a child care facility which provides care for no more than 10 children placed by and under the supervision of a licensed child welfare agency with these homes being owned or rented, staffed, maintained and otherwise operated by the agency. (Source: P.A. 79-1016.)

"Foster family home" means the home of an individual or family: (1) that is licensed or approved by the state in which it is situated as a foster family home that meets the standards established for the licensing or approval; and (2) in which a child in foster care has been placed in the care of an individual who resid…

"Early care and education homes" means family homes which receive more than 3 up to a maximum of 12 children for less than 24 hours per day

"Early care and education homes" means family homes which receive more than 3 up to a maximum of 12 children for less than 24 hours per day. The number counted includes the family's natural or adopted children and all other persons under the age of 12. The term does not include locations that receive only children from…

"Group early care and education home" means a family home which receives more than 3 up to a maximum of 16 children for less than 24 hours per day

"Group early care and education home" means a family home which receives more than 3 up to a maximum of 16 children for less than 24 hours per day. The number counted includes the family's natural or adopted children and all other persons under the age of 12.(Source: P.A. 104-480, eff. 7-1-26.)

"Youth Emergency Shelter" means a child care facility licensed by the Department to provide overnight shelter, and referral for other services, to homeless youth under 18 years of age in accordance with the requirements of this Act and applicable rules of the Department. (Source: P.A. 86-278; 86-386.)

"Secure child care facility" means any child care facility licensed by the Department to provide secure living arrangements for children under 18 years of age who are subject to placement in facilities under the Children and Family Services Act and who are not subject to placement in facilities for whom standards are e…

Quality of care concerns applicant

Quality of care concerns applicant. "Quality of care concerns applicant" means an applicant for a foster care license or renewal of a foster care license where the applicant or any person living in the applicant's household: (1) has had a license issued under this Act revoked; (2) has surrendered a license issued under…

"Adoption-only home" means a home that receives a child placed by an Illinois licensed child welfare agency providing adoption services for the sole purpose of adoption

"Adoption-only home" means a home that receives a child placed by an Illinois licensed child welfare agency providing adoption services for the sole purpose of adoption. The child shall not be under the custody or guardianship of the Department pursuant to the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Such adoption-only home shall n…

"Adoption services" includes any one or more of the following services performed for any type of compensation or thing of value, directly or indirectly: (i) arranging for the placement of or placing out a child, (ii) identifying a child for adoption, (iii) matching adoptive parents with birth parents, (iv) arranging or…

"Unlicensed pre-adoptive and adoptive home" means any home that is not licensed by the Department as a foster family home and that receives a child or children for the purpose of adopting the child or children, but does not include an adoption-only home. (Source: P.A. 99-833, eff. 1-1-17.)

"Eligible agency" means a licensed child welfare agency that (i) is currently fully accredited by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services (COA) for adoption services and (ii) has had no Department substantiated licensing violations or COA accrediting violations that affect the health, safety, mora…

"Deemed compliant" means that an eligible agency is presumed to be in compliance with requirements, provided that the Department has determined that current COA standards are at least substantially equivalent to those requirements. This presumption of compliance may be rebutted by Department substantiated evidence to t…

Non-licensed service provider

Non-licensed service provider. "Non-licensed service provider" means an individual or entity that contracts with the Department to provide child welfare services that enable the Department to perform its duties under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act, the Child Care Act of 1969, and the Children and Family S…