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Daycare Dangers,
U.S. News and World Report,
4-Aug-97, page 35 |
Many states now urge former welfare recipients to be trained as day-care
workers. This may be good for the recipients, since it prepares them for
jobs; it could be bad for children, since some
states seem ready to lower existing standards to accept these "provisionally
certified" providers.
Category = Regulations |
Daycare Dangers,
U.S. News and World Report,
4-Aug-97, page 35 |
While restaurants are shut down every day for even minor hygiene
violations, records show that day-care
centers in America are rarely closed. Frequently, licensing
authorities try to keep troubled facilities open so working parents won't be
left in the lurch.
Category = Regulations |
Daycare Dangers,
U.S. News and World Report,
4-Aug-97, page 36 |
Similarly, parents may assume that a state license means inspectors will
regularly check the (day-care) facility. In most states, it does not.
Typically, inspectors visit a center when it opens, for initial
accreditation--and thereafter in response to complaints or after a few years
pass.
Category = Regulations |
Daycare Dangers,
U.S. News and World Report,
4-Aug-97, page 36 |
When (day-care) inspectors do show up, they often concentrate on compliance
with the safety rules--whether a first-aid kit is complete, for instance,
but may be oblivious to larger concerns about the
children's welfare.
Category = Regulations |
Daycare Dangers,
U.S. News and World Report,
4-Aug-97, page 36 |
(A bad daycare) stayed in business because the previous cases (of child
abuse) boiled down to a child's word against that of an adult--and the
regulators consistently sided with the adult.
Category = Regulations |
Daycare Dangers,
U.S. News and World Report,
4-Aug-97, page 37 |
But while the families of victims lobby for higher standards and stricter
rules, proprietary day care, especially the larger franchises, employs a
powerful lobby in Washington to keep up opposition to increased regulation.
Industry representatives contend that day care can maintain high standards
without bolstering requirements, and that new regulations would drive costs
up to unacceptable levels. What seems hardest for
the mourning families is their abiding sense that they themselves have been
naive--naive in assuming that the laws and standards governing day care had
produced a system in which their children would be safe.
Category = Politics,
Regulations |
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