A thank you to Senator Eide for caring about this baby, Colby Thompson, who sustained horrible permanent damage to his little soul by an unlicensed family home child care provider in 2010.
There is all ready an RCW & WAC (regulation)regarding unlicensed care and a history by the child care licensing agency of not complying with that regulation and/or failing to give the unlicensed person full knowledge of the full content of and consequences of the law.
Again and historically the unelected bureaucratic managers will simply ignore this RCW like they did with RCW 74.15.100, RCW 74.15.030(2)(b)(3), RCW 43.215.330, RCW 43.215.340, RCW 43.215.370, RCW 43.215.250, RCW 43.215.005(4)(d)(i) to name a few.
When I was a licensor I would send out the letters to unlicensed folks enclosing the law and the penalties for not following the law. Supervisor Darcy Taylor on June 1, 2005 wrote me an email: "Dear Margo, I am directing you to discontinue sending a copy of the RCWs with unlicensed letters." Before Taylor became supervisor, under supervisor Glen Berringer, he not only let me send out the letters he allowed me to do follow up, he had the Attorney General's Office send injunction letters and then went out with me, sometimes repeatedly to make the point to the unlicensed person...stop doing unlicensed care. In my 13 years of being a child care licensor that was the only year and the only manager who pragmatically and consistently supervised the agency per RCW and WAC.
DEL will not comply with postings to a website regarding RCW 43.215.370 or RCW 43.215.005(4)(d)(i)and there is nothing coming out from any unelected bureaucratic DEL manager that they will honor this child, this mom or respect this senator with the passage of Senator Eide's bill.
I will write a follow up post about another unlicensed home in Clark County where a baby died and then the unlicensed (formerly licensed) provider continued providing unlicensed care and the supervisor did not investigate when a concerned citizen called in to report unlicensed care was still happening in that home. In a whistle blower investigation on that DEL supervisor she was promised before the investigation that no disciplinary action or retaliation would happen to her for cooperating with that investigation.
Again a thank you to all the senators and representatives who work to do the business of the citizens of the state of Washington.
4 comments:
Margot, I have a question for you regarding this post. Please email me at: jamie@nevershake.org
Thank you for your time!
Margo,
I have a few questions for you. Could you please email me at lynne.james22288@gmail.com?
Thank you.
What happened to the child? What is wrong with people taking care or their friends children without being a daycare?
Colby has permanent brain damage and must have intensive care the rest of his life.
Your second question is too broad to answer specifically.
I will link an article later this weekend from another state related to unlicensed care where since 2007 45 children have died, and perhaps in that article it might provide some insights in terms of the thoughts you might be considering.
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