KEY POINTS TO LOOK FOR
- The type of care given.
- Convenience of where the care center is located.
- A clean, well- lit facility with plenty of indoor and outdoor space.
- Parents allowed to visit at all times.
- Food prepared, maintained, and stored properly to assure its flavor, safety, appearance, and nutrition.
- All children in care be screened for current immunizations, TB testing and health evaluations.
- Hazardous items (medications, chemicals, poisons, combustibles, and sharp tools) locked up and away children.
- Written procedure for disasters and first aid posted.
- Criminal background checks on the day care provider and assistants.
- Day care provider is free of communicable diseases.
- A respectful, problem solving approach to guiding children's behavior.
- Number of day care providers to number and ages of children.
- Committed, involved child cares providers who like children and so well supervising them.
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