Home daycares and child care centers

Which state licenses your program?

Free checklist for a daycare emergency plan: evacuation, relocation, shelter in place, lockdown and family reunification, as licensing requires.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Hands off to the right door
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ePlan fills in

  • Flood zone
  • Wildfire risk
  • Natural hazard risk
  • Nearest hospital
  • Nearest fire station

How it works

Child care emergency plan checklist, from one answer

  1. Tell us your state, the children's ages and your staff.
  2. ePlan maps flood, fire and other hazards and the nearest help.
  3. Read the checklist free. Need the posted evacuation map? Start a fire safety and evacuation plan.

What you get

Child care emergency plan checklist and 1 more document

The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Emergency action plan and fire prevention plan door.

The first draft

Child care emergency plan checklist (free)

  1. Program, ages and staff
  2. Hazards at this address
  3. Evacuation and relocation site
  4. Shelter in place and lockdown
  5. Family communication and reunification
  6. Infants, special needs and medications

Modeled on: 45 CFR 98.41(a)(1)(vii) emergency preparedness and response planning

Next · 2

Fire safety and evacuation plan with exit map

  1. Exits and routes
  2. Assembly point
  3. Alarm and reporting
  4. Roles and drills

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

1 a year

at least: licensed child care programs get an unannounced inspection against health, safety and fire standards, emergency planning included
Source: 45 CFR 98.42(b)(2)(i), eCFR

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Questions

Child Care Emergency Preparedness Plan: what people ask

What must a child care emergency plan cover?

Under federal child care rules, procedures for evacuation, relocation, shelter in place and lockdown; staff and volunteer training and practice drills; communication and reunification with families; continuity of operations; and accommodations for infants, toddlers and children with disabilities or chronic medical conditions.

Source: ecfr.gov

Who checks my emergency plan?

Your state's licensing inspectors. Federal child care rules call for at least one pre-licensure inspection and an unannounced inspection at least once a year for licensed programs, covering health and safety requirements, including emergency planning, and fire standards.

Source: ecfr.gov

Do these federal rules apply to every daycare?

They apply to providers serving children through the federal Child Care and Development Fund. Each state must certify that its health and safety requirements, set under state, local or tribal law, cover those providers. Your state's licensing rules may reach further.

Source: ecfr.gov

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