Local Childcare Facility
Inspection Reports Are Available Now Online
By: Brian G.
Kasperitis
Parents listen up! Do you know what is really going on at your
children’s childcare facility? Isn’t it true that your childcare
provider interacts with your children for about 10 hours per day?
But, only see you for about 10 minutes per day; five minutes in the
morning at drop-off, and then again at pick-up!
For the first time ever, reports of childcare facility inspections
are now available online. What you find by accessing this
information may delight you, or shock you. This data may even cause
you to question, “What do I insist upon when it comes to my child’s
well-being?”
In your area, many departments of child safety and childcare
licensing have already implemented Web sites that provide invaluable
research tools now available to parents when deciding where to place
their children in regard to childcare services. Many childcare
licensing divisions have announced that they are making available
online results of inspections that have been conducted at not only
commercial facilities, but also home-based childcare centers.
The information now available to the public eye includes all or any
major violations discovered by the licensing agent during
inspections of individual facilities, as well the consequences, if
any that the childcare facility may face as a result of these
violations. The violations are usually addressed, and the childcare
director is given adequate time to fix the problem. Violations of
set minimum standards are incurred for any number of reasons, from
unavailable records, unbalanced menus, lack of supervision on the
playground, unsafe toys and equipment, changing diapers without
proper sanitary procedures, etc.
One example of a website address is
www.TDPRS.state.tx.us . This is
the main address for those people in Houston, TX. In order to find
information that is pertinent to your specific area, check for
childcare licensing on the net near you.
