Unfortunately, as history shows the regulated become the favored client in government oversight and that is the history of licensed child day care as well. Parents are at a disadvantage calling in a complaint to the government or its contracted agencies like Child Care Aware.
Parents are stonewalled and given inaccurate information even as their gut feelings, their intuition told them the true story. As a former child day care licensor who blew the whistle on the government in Washington State, I have for the last ten years helped parents and a few providers get a measure of justice. Sometimes parents took on the system themselves through the courts and sometimes parents found the high quality law firm that helped them get justice for their child.
The biggest part of the story in standing up is that in the future their children will know that mom and dad went to bat for them against a seemingly insurmountable wall of injustice that makes up our government bureaucracies. With over 20 years of successful government oversight and now 10 years as an national independent expert witness and analyst regarding child day care licensing as well as teaching courses on recognizing child abuse, child safety, child guidance and observational skills I bring quality focus, comprehension and cogent thought to civil lawsuits, administrative hearings, to parents, grandparents, to the legislature and the general public on child day care.
Contact me at crowvision yahoo. I would advise the mother interviewed for this article and other parents to not put children in a day care setting until they can talk; until they can "tell".
Many parents have done the math and know only two people cannot give any real semblance of quality care to eight infants. Two people with eight infants? I see there is a new assistant director in DEL, Frank Ordway who told the interviewer why the number of centers declined from to in the last four years: " Ordway might have analyzed the impact of the two infant deaths that occurred in a licensed day care, a provider who only took infants and contained them in a basement that didn't meet safety regulations.
After the first infant death without conducting an investigation DEL allowed the provider to continue with her license. A little over ten years later another infant died in the same day care. Parents might have read about that case last year. Ordway went on to say: "So if you have eight infants, you've got to have two employees," Ordway said. It's a really difficult business proposition.
Ordway continued: "So over just the last year, 18 months, there has been a variety of laws and policies passed in Olympia that seeks to increase the opportunities, in terms of more child care providers," Ordway said. And if they deliver high quality, more money to reimburse their services.
After not enforcing the safety regulations where two infants died the solution by DEL seems to be to manifest a further decline in such duties as training, oversight and enforcement around licensed child day care? In the time that I was licensor when licensed providers were required to attend renewal orientation the high quality providers told me how embarrassed they were at the low quality of providers who sat at the table with them.
To alleviate the problem of high and low quality providers having to meet in the same room the agency stopped requiring renewal orientation even though it was a law. But as W. Edward Demings taught us quality must come from the top and go down. The quality at the top of DEL, in my expert opinion, is atrocious. DSHS Department of Social and Health Services under Governor Locke had embraced the Deming business principles "quality must come from the top" but those never manifested in a system with a long history of entrenched poor quality management.
The poor quality of the top managers at DEL comes down the pike to the regional then local levels then on down to the day care provider level. Poor quality managers liked poor quality providers is what I witnessed. When too many children die eventually it makes the news then a pretend reform process is instituted. They rename the agency, replace the top person and announce to the public with the media willing to be their mouthpiece , see we fixed it? Day care licensing was pulled out of DSHS in , given its own special agency reporting directly to the governor.
That was supposed to fix it or give the appearance of fixing it. Plus a whole new load, boatload of taxpayer money to pay for the governor's special agency. What is DEL doing now? They are at the top at the right hand of the governor?
What pretend reform are they working on now? I find that sad. When Mr. Hunter was a representative in the legislature he got my copies of the records I submitted to the State Auditor Whistle Blower program. Hunter found the records extremely concerning and attempted to meet with the top managers of DEL at that time, he was very frustrated with them; and he was powerless to change their behaviors.
Construction — Competitive procurement process and contract provisions — Conflict with federal requirements and Indian Child Welfare Act of — 3rd sp. Effective date — 3rd sp. Conflict with federal requirements — 3rd sp. Application — c See note following RCW A child care provider is defined as a person working at a child care center, family child care provider, or another provider of child care services, such as a faith-based organization, community-based organizations, or a school.
This includes bus drivers, kitchen staff, janitors, and administrative employees. Family members who live in a family child care home who are over 18 must also have a comprehensive background check.
If a provider cares for children to whom they are related, then they do not need to have a comprehensive background check. Individuals who volunteer in a child care program may not need to have a comprehensive background check. Each state has its own policy regarding volunteers and background checks. All children should be safe. Efforts will be made in to fix the law to ensure that there is one uniform background check system for child care providers in Virginia.
Today's Technology: As technology has evolved, the FBI and many states have moved toward a system using livescan, a digital fingerprinting process.
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