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to a facility defined as a group residence
Group care facility
in section one of
chapter one hundred and forty-three.
� Large family day care home", a private residence which, on a regular basis, (S
feceives for temporary custody and care during part or all of the day, children
under seven years of age or children under sixteen years of age if such children
have special needs, and receives for temporary custody and care for a limited
number of hours, children of school age in accordance with regulations
promulgated by the office; provided, however, that the number of children
under the age of sixteen in a large family day care home shall not exceed ten,
including participating children living in the, residence. A large family day care
home shall have at least one approved assistant when the total number of
children participating in such day care exceeds six. Large family day care
home shall not mean a private residence used for an informal cooperative
arrangement among neighbors or relatives, or the occasional care of children
with or without compensation therefor.
"Office", the office of child care services.
"Person", any individual, partnership, corporation, association, organization
or trust pr any department, agency or institution of the federal government or
of the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof.
"Placement agency", a department, agency or institution of the Common-
wealth, or any political subdivision thereof, or any organization incorporated
under chapter one hundred and eighty, one of whose principal purposes is
providing custodial care and social services to children, which receives by
agreement with a parent or guardian, by contract with a state agency or as a
result of referral by a court of competent jurisdiction, any .child under eighteen
years of age, for placement in family foster care or a group care facility, or for
adoption.
"School age child care program", any program or facility operated on a
regular basis which provides supervised group care for children not of common
parentage who are enrolled in kindergarten and are of sufficient age to enter
first grade the following year, or an older child who is not more than fourteen
years of age, or sixteen years of age if such child has special needs. Such a
program may operate before and after school and may also operate during
school vacation and holidays. It provides a planned daily program of activities
that is attended by children for specifically identified blocks of time during the
week, usually over a period of weeks or months. A school age child care
program shall not include: any program operated by a public school system;
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