Best Friends Forever Creative Learning Childcare, Llc - South Bend IN Licensed Home

, SOUTH BEND IN 46613
(574) 387-4654

About the Provider

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.

Additional Information: PTQ Level 3;

Program and Licensing Details

  • Capacity: 12
  • Age Range: Infant-Eighteen
  • PTQ Level: 1
  • Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program: No
  • Current License Issue Date: Jul 01, 2021
  • District Office: Indiana Family and Social Services Administration - Bureau of Child Care
  • District Office Phone: 1-877-511-1144 (Note: This is not the facility phone number.)

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Inspection/Report History

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Inspection Type/Date Action needed to correct issue Date Resolved
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
Type of correction needed: IC 12-17.2-5-3(d)(2)&(e)
One caregivers fingerprints need to be updated.
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
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.
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
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-1.1-28(a)(3)
A current business license letter is needed.
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
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-1.1-46(l)
The smoke detector did not sound off .
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
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-1.1-28.5(c)(1)
A current TB test is needed for one caregiver.
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
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-1.1-32(a)(3)
No consent forms submitted
Licensing
2019-04-04
Caregiver shall store implements and tools, including, but not limited to: power tools 2019-04-04
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-1.1-48(d)(1)
Tools left in bathroom next to toilet
Licensing
2019-04-04
Caregiver shall keep poisonous or hazardous materials that would harm children, including, but not limited to: cleaning supplies 2019-04-04
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-1.1-48(c)(1)
Chemicals and other hazardous materials accessible in closets and low shelves
Licensing
2019-04-04
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 2019-04-17
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-1.1-28.5(c)(1)
Staff member missing TB test
Licensing
2019-04-04
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 2019-04-08
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-1.1-32(a)(3)
vollunteer missing consent form
Licensing
2019-04-04
Direct child care providers, including volunteers, shall receive training in the following within thirty (30) days of starting employment or volunteer work: Procedures for preventing, detecting, and reporting suspected child abuse and neglect 2019-04-18
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-1.1-33.5(b)(3)
Staff members need to take Child Abuse and Neglect Training
Licensing
2019-04-04
The assistant caregiver shall work under the direct supervision of the caregiver. If an assistant caregiver under twenty-one (21) years of age is left in charge of a child care home, the parent must be notified in writing. 2019-04-17
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-1.1-33(b)
Staff member under 21 working without written parent notification
Licensing
2019-04-04
Direct child care providers who work in the home more than three (3) times a month and all members of the household having direct contact with children receiving care shall have an initial physical examination by a physician or certified nurse practitioner indicating that they are free from communicable disease, have no physical or other condition which would endanger the health or welfare of children in care, and have an annual Mantoux tuberculin test or chest x-ray 2019-06-22
Type of correction needed: 470 IAC 3-1.1-34(a)
Staff member missing physical
Licensing
2019-04-04
A licensee that cares for children who are less than twelve (12) months of age shall: ensure that all caregivers of children who are less than twelve (12) months of age follow safe sleeping practices. 2019-05-14
Type of correction needed: IC 12-17.2-5-3.7(a)(2)
Staff members need safe sleep

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