Description: BEST FRIENDS FOREVER CREATIVE LEARNING CHILDCARE, LLC is a Licensed Home in SOUTH BEND IN, with a maximum capacity of 12 children. The home-based daycare service helps with children in the age range of Infant-Eighteen. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
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| Licensing 2024-04-16 |
If fans or heaters are used, licensee shall provide models that are protected by safety devices which will not allow a childs fingers to come in contact with the blade or heating element | |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-48(b) The provider had a fan running in a room where a child was sleeping. It was a box fan with no guard in place to preven fingers from going through the slats. |
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| Licensing 2024-04-16 |
Children shall not be left unattended and shall be supervised at all times | |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-36.5(b) The provider had a child sleeping in a room that door was closed. |
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| Licensing 2023-04-17 |
The caregiver shall conduct and document quarterly fire drills | 2323-04-18 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-46(s) The provider did not have a quarterly fire drill. |
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| Licensing 2023-04-17 |
Direct child care providers, including volunteers, shall receive training in the following within thirty (30) days of starting employment or volunteer work: Confidential treatment of personal information about children in care and their families | 2323-05-15 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-33.5(b)(2) The provider and staff did not have the required 12 hours training per year. |
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| Licensing 2022-06-03 |
Caregiver shall keep poisonous or hazardous materials that would harm children, including, but not limited to: cleaning supplies | 2022-06-03 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-48(c)(1) At the time of the inspection the provider had soap in the bathroom that stated keep out of the reach of children. The provider removed the soap and place it out of the reach of the children. |
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| Licensing 2022-06-03 |
If more than one (1) infant or toddler in care is bottle fed, all bottles shall be labeled with the childs name | 2022-06-03 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.2-7(b) At the time of the inspection the provider had more than one infant in care and the bottles were not labeled. |
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| Licensing 2022-01-13 |
An applicant must submit the necessary information, forms, or consents for the division to: obtain a national criminal history background check on the applicant through the state police department under IC 10-13-3-39 | 2022-01-13 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-5-3(d)(2)&(e) At the time of the inspection the provider admitted that she had a staff member working that had been determined to be disqualified. The staff member as been fired and was not at the home this date. |
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| Licensing 2022-01-13 |
The licensee shall maintain the following documentation in the child care home for review by the COFC: Documentation of criminal history checks on employees, volunteers, and all household members who are at least eighteen (18) years of age | 2022-01-13 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-32(a)(3) At the time of the inspection the provider admitted that she had a staff member working that had been determined to be disqualified. The staff member as been fired and was not at the home this date. |
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| Complaints 2022-01-12 |
The licensee shall maintain the following documentation in the child care home for review by the COFC: Documentation of criminal history checks on employees, volunteers, and all household members who are at least eighteen (18) years of age | 2022-04-06 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-32(a)(3) program out of compliance with staff qualifications requirement |
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| Licensing 2021-06-03 |
An applicant must submit the necessary information, forms, or consents for the division to: obtain a national criminal history background check on the applicant through the state police department under IC 10-13-3-39 | 2021-05-14 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-5-3(d)(2)&(e) One caregivers fingerprints need to be updated. |
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| Licensing 2021-06-03 |
The licensee shall ensure that no conditions exist in the home or on the grounds where child care services are provided that would endanger the health, safety, or welfare of the children | 2021-05-15 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-45(a) The water temperature was 130 degrees. The water temperature should be between 100-120 degrees. |
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| Licensing 2021-06-03 |
An applicant for a child care home license shall do the following: Submit to the COFC a completed, signed application for a child care home license, including attachments required to demonstrate compliance with this rule | 2021-05-13 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-28(a)(3) A current business license letter is needed. |
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| Licensing 2021-06-03 |
Licensee shall provide electrical or battery-operated smoke detector that is installed to manufacturers specifications and is located and adjusted to operate reliably in case of smoke in any part of the child care home, including not less than one (1) smoke detector at the top of each stairway and adjacent to all sleeping areas. The alarm should be loud enough to alert all occupants in the child care home | 2021-05-14 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-46(l) The smoke detector did not sound off . |
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| Licensing 2021-06-03 |
The caregiver shall maintain and make available verification of the following: Annual Mantoux tuberculin test or chest x-ray for direct child care providers and all family members over eighteen (18) years of age | 2021-05-17 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-28.5(c)(1) A current TB test is needed for one caregiver. |
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| Licensing 2020-06-16 |
The licensee shall maintain the following documentation in the child care home for review by the COFC: Documentation of criminal history checks on employees, volunteers, and all household members who are at least eighteen (18) years of age | 2020-07-07 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-32(a)(3) No consent forms submitted |
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