Daycare inspection violations

[Anonymous]

We've been at the same daycare for >2 years. It has its quirks like anywhere but we've generally been happy with the level of care and our kids have been happy. Early on the director always gave the impression of being a stickler about the rules (e.g., would take in an drop-in older sibling for a day only if it didn't violate ratios/capacity). I've gotten lax at checking inspection reports regularly because they had always been pretty good but happened to look and there was an unscheduled visit a couple months ago with multiple violations- too many kids, director wasn't there, one of the assistants was unauthorized. This is rather unsettling and makes me wonder how often they are violating the rules. What would you do? Express concerns to the director? I'm not ready to pull my kids out (as if I could find a new spot for the infant anyway) but I want to make it clear that this is unacceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've been at the same daycare for >2 years. It has its quirks like anywhere but we've generally been happy with the level of care and our kids have been happy. Early on the director always gave the impression of being a stickler about the rules (e.g., would take in an drop-in older sibling for a day only if it didn't violate ratios/capacity). I've gotten lax at checking inspection reports regularly because they had always been pretty good but happened to look and there was an unscheduled visit a couple months ago with multiple violations- too many kids, director wasn't there, one of the assistants was unauthorized. This is rather unsettling and makes me wonder how often they are violating the rules. What would you do? Express concerns to the director? I'm not ready to pull my kids out (as if I could find a new spot for the infant anyway) but I want to make it clear that this is unacceptable.

Is this an in-home or a center? By unauthorized, do you mean they missed the most recent background check deadline or they weren't an actual employee at all?

Also, none of the daycares we looked at--in home or center--did drop-in older siblings because their activities/structure were really for much younger kids. A child needs to be enrolled (with all paperwork and immunizations) to go there.

[Anonymous]

If you don't trust that this daycare is keeping your children safe, you should look for a different daycare. If you feel confident this was an aberration on a bad day (maybe too many people called in sick on the same day), then that's another thing, but it doesn't sound like that's what you think. Maybe speaking with the director would help you to understand which of those things is what is going on. But I wouldn't count on it to change their behavior if that is what you are trying to do.