Reporting requirements
Effective Sep 5, 2025Ark. R. 2025-14 (eff. September 5, 2025)Arkansas Code § 20-14-503; Arkansas Code § 6-87-101
(a) A local provider program must:
(1) Submit reports of the following events within one (1) hour of the event:
- (A) Death of a child;
- (B) Serious injury to a child; or
- (C) Any incident that a local provider program should reasonably know might be of interest to the public or the media;
- (2) Submit reports of all other incidents within forty-eight (48) hours of the event or the first business day if the accident occurs on a weekend or holiday that prevents reporting within forty-eight (48) hours.
- (b) A local provider program must enter the incident report into the child’s electronic record in the state-approved data system.
- (c) Reporting under this part does not relieve a local provider program of complying with any other applicable reporting or disclosure requirements under state or federal laws, rules, or regulations.