DCF RULES AND REGULATIONS FINAL PAPER
EXAM FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS 2026
● Reason we follow rules and laws. Answer: to protect children (not
because we fear legal consequences)
● Florida Department of Children and Families. Answer: Agency that
determines state rules pertaining to child care and enforces these rules by
licensing and inspecting child care facilities
● Local fire department. Answer: inspects child care facilities and
educates child care professionals about minimizing fires and other
threats to safety
● Local County health dept.. Answer: determines ordinances pertaining
to public health and inspects child care facilities to enforce these
ordinances
● Local licensing agencies. Answer: establishes, regulates, and enforces
rules and local ordinances, which must meet or exceed state standards
, ● Florida statutes. Answer: made up of the individual laws which were
passed by the legislature; new statutes appear each year, some are
rewritten/amended. Written and proposed by the FL senate and house of
reps., signed into law by govenor
● FL administrative code. Answer: rules that are created and enforced by
DCF. Based off of legislature, DCF staff members write the rules and
regulations that appear in this code
● Americans with disabilities act. Answer: passed in 1990, prohibits
discrimination against people with disabilities. Goals are to promote
community integration by prohibiting discrimination based on disability;
to create early intervention services for infants and toddlers, with special
needs and their families; and to provide non-discriminatory,
multidisciplinary evaluation by qualified professionals
● Primary role of the child care profession. Answer: keep children safe,
provide good nutrition and a healthy environment, create an
environment for learning
● agencies that work with child care facilities to assess the background
of child care personnel. Answer: -local law enforcement
-FL. dept of law enforcement
-FBI
● Records checked during a screening. Answer: -employment history
EXAM FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS 2026
● Reason we follow rules and laws. Answer: to protect children (not
because we fear legal consequences)
● Florida Department of Children and Families. Answer: Agency that
determines state rules pertaining to child care and enforces these rules by
licensing and inspecting child care facilities
● Local fire department. Answer: inspects child care facilities and
educates child care professionals about minimizing fires and other
threats to safety
● Local County health dept.. Answer: determines ordinances pertaining
to public health and inspects child care facilities to enforce these
ordinances
● Local licensing agencies. Answer: establishes, regulates, and enforces
rules and local ordinances, which must meet or exceed state standards
, ● Florida statutes. Answer: made up of the individual laws which were
passed by the legislature; new statutes appear each year, some are
rewritten/amended. Written and proposed by the FL senate and house of
reps., signed into law by govenor
● FL administrative code. Answer: rules that are created and enforced by
DCF. Based off of legislature, DCF staff members write the rules and
regulations that appear in this code
● Americans with disabilities act. Answer: passed in 1990, prohibits
discrimination against people with disabilities. Goals are to promote
community integration by prohibiting discrimination based on disability;
to create early intervention services for infants and toddlers, with special
needs and their families; and to provide non-discriminatory,
multidisciplinary evaluation by qualified professionals
● Primary role of the child care profession. Answer: keep children safe,
provide good nutrition and a healthy environment, create an
environment for learning
● agencies that work with child care facilities to assess the background
of child care personnel. Answer: -local law enforcement
-FL. dept of law enforcement
-FBI
● Records checked during a screening. Answer: -employment history
