Saturday, August 11, 2012

DSHS, Department of Early Learning, Washington State, Florida...It's all the Same, Failure by Regulators to Take Action

With four year old Jordan Coleman dying in a hot day care car in Sunrise, Florida, his day care provider like so many was given a heads up by the state that they'd be visiting her home.

In Washington State as a day care licensor when I made unannounced monitor visits to a day care home and found them overcapacity repeatedly, Washington State managers would not shut down the home. Then after a child dies, the state regulators will revoke the license citing all the violations they'd seen over the years that they never took action on. 

It's a known practice for day care providers to delay opening the door to a regulator or food program monitor while children are hidden in closets, put in the garage, sent out the back door to a neighbor's house and now in Florida to die in a car. Other day care providers know it and the states know it.

In Washington State and most other states the department managers won't post the violations seen in day care homes and the government managers don't give that information to Child Care Resource and Referral now called Child Care Aware.  Child Care Aware is just an extension of the same old government failure, tricking parents into believing that licensed means the day care provider is operating per law.  It doesn't.

From the article:

"Coleman was left inside a sport utility vehicle outside the Versailles Gardens Condominium complex in Tamarac on Aug. 1. He was supposed to be at the 3C's Day Academy in Sunrise, which is run out of a home. However, he and several other children were removed from the home by the daycare owner's daughter. The daycare had been expecting to see a visit from state investigators that day and had been cited before for being over capacity."

Child Care Aware?  Child Care Beware.

America's regulatory history is shocking and the amount of taxpayer money that goes into giving the illusion that there is oversight and enforcement is a  shocking deadly farce.

Regulation came in the 1880s specifically to create a barrier between pesky concerned citizens and the big railroad companies at that time.  It was never created to prevent harm, it was created to allow harm. Dead history, history not taught in public school education, has created dead citizens under the specifically created illusion that our regulatory laws mean something when they don't.


http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21008232062214/lawsuit-filed-after-child-dies-in-car/

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Panel Protects DSHS in their Failures in Powell Case

Who was on the panel? The article says, "a panel of lawyers, a judge, a police officer, social service providers, a psychologist and two state senators."

No citizens, no we, the people were involved. And as usual in these child death cases no mention is made of managers, the attorney general's office and high ranking government officials.

I helped a dad protect his sons, a four year old and six year old last year from CPS who let the boys be around the boyfriend of the mom who terrorized and beat the boys. The line social worker had a congeal relationship with mom's boyfriend. He was very cavalier, confident and controlling about his power over the boys.

I had to go back inside my old agency, DSHS CPS and pound away to get the CPS head honchos to walk a simple piece of paper over to the judge so the dad could get back custody. What a nightmare, worrying about those two boys, especially the four year old.

Little ones with a single mom who has a boyfriend is at higher risk to be killed.

All up the chain to the highest mucky mucks I went. I finally got inside and met with a high manager who remembered he and I had worked well together when I was on the inside.  He then agreed to walk that piece of paper over to the court and the dad got back custody.

I called the CPS hotline and made a CPS report on CPS.  I urge all citizens to do the same. 

This in my expert opinion is just one more cover up of DSHS.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018832435_powell03m.html