All licensed foster care placements housing more than six children (including all foster, biological, and adoptive children) must provide 24-hour awake night supervision when at least one of those children is in DFPS conservatorship. This includes both foster homes and general residential operations.

The investigator and supervisor identify whether the operation involved in the investigation is required to have 24-hour awake night supervision during the investigation assignment conference. The supervisor documents this as part of the conference contact. See 4121 Investigation Assignment Conference.

When an operation is identified as being required to have 24-hour awake night supervision, the investigator asks about nighttime supervision during interviews with children in care. The investigator documents this as part of the interview contact.

If there are concerns that caregivers are failing to remain awake to provide 24-hour awake night supervision, CCI staff complete all of the following:

• Notifies the Residential Contracts Night Unit within two hours of the concern being identified. The investigator does this by emailing the DFPS 24 Hour Monitoring mailbox[sic, email link] with a brief summary of the concern and the IMPACT case number for the investigation during which the concern was identified. The investigator copies his or her supervisor on the email.
• Makes a report to Statewide Intake within 24 hours if the lack of supervision is unrelated to the allegations under investigation.
• Notifies the Child Care Licensing representative assigned to the operation about the concern within one business day.

The investigator documents any contacts made due to identified concerns as a contact in the investigation record.