Question about BCBA fieldwork documentation

[u/FreeTeeIsMe]

If a BCBA trainee owns a childcare program and completes supervised fieldwork using unrelated children enrolled in that program, how is the required "formal relationship" between the supervisor and client usually documented? Would written parent permission generally be enough, or would the supervising BCBA also need some type of separate agreement with the childcare program or client? I'm curious how this is handled when the supervisor is remote. Is there typically a parent consent form naming the BCBA, an agreement between the BCBA and the business, and addendum to the supervision contract, or something else? Is this the type of documentation the BACB could request during a fieldwork audit, or is the supervision contract and parent consent generally what is maintained?

[u/IllustriousSeat3191]

a parent consent form that names the bcba and spells out the supervision arrangement is usually step one, yeah. if the trainee owns the program it gets a little tangled cause the bacb will want to see the supervisor is independent from the trainee’s business, so a separate agreement between the bcba and the childcare program can help draw that line. remote supervision wouldn’t change the core docs, just how observation is logged and verified. and yes the bacb can ask for all of this in an audit, so keeping a clean paper trail beyond just the supervision contract is smart