Department of Early Learning In Washington State Non-expiring Day Care Licenses

With the State of Washington having gone to non-expiring family home child day care licenses there should have been an increase in enforcement actions. No such announcement has been forthcoming from the Department of Early Learning to date.

The the non-actions may actually increase injury and deaths like from the article about  day care in Minnesota.  Weird stuff can go on behind private closed doors. 

There was one day care provider in Washington State who wouldn't allow parents into the home to drop off or get their children.  I caught her with eight over her capacity of twelve. She had no assistant and hid children upstairs in the closet.  The Department of Early managers would not revoke her license.

The article below quotes Washington State's day care manager Aimee Lapp Payne. Ms Payne  failed to disclose for the report the numerous times that Washington State regulators allowed poor and risky providers to keep their licenses

From the article: "The risk is that low standards result in low quality, said Aimee Lapp Payne, who wrote an influential 2011 report for the National Association for Regulatory Administration on child-care safety. "If it isn't a regulatory requirement, they aren't going to do it," she said."

Aimee should have said, "Even though it's a  requirement we too many times Washington State day care licensing didn't  take action,  not until children were injured,  maimed or killed."

http://www.startribune.com/local/162479246.html?page=2&c=y

Bottom line nothing in Washington State that I've witnessed at this time nor has Washington State shared any data to show that it is making a change at this time. 

With non-expiring licenses we may see a change towards what's happening in Minnesota increased injury, maiming, death and an increase in the department hiding information from the public to cover up those failures,