Description: BRIGHTER DAYS ACADEMY 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.
Where possible, ChildcareCenter provides inspection reports as a service to families. This information is deemed reliable, but is not guaranteed. We encourage families to contact the daycare provider directly with any questions or concerns, as the provider may have already addressed some or all issues. Reports can also be verified with your local daycare licensing office.
| Inspection Type/Date | Action needed to correct issue | Date Resolved |
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| Licensing 2020-12-02 |
Direct child care providers shall keep protective coverings over exposed electrical outlets | |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-48(a) Outlets uncovered |
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| Licensing 2020-12-02 |
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 | |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-45(a) Chemicals acessible under kitchen sink and kitchen closet. Medication acessible in bag on table. |
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| Licensing 2020-12-02 |
Exits shall not be blocked in the child care home | |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-46(g) Front exit blocked with a stack of sleeping cots |
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| Licensing 2020-12-02 |
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 | |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-46(l) Two smoke detectors chirping |
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| Licensing 2020-12-02 |
The licensee shall maintain the following documentation in the child care home for review by the COFC: Documentation of certification of a current first aid course, training in Universal Precautions, and annual CPR certification by direct child care providers | |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-32(a)(5) CPR expired in November |
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| Licensing 2019-12-05 |
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 | 2019-12-30 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-45(a) Broken refrigerator in outside play space. |
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| Licensing 2019-12-05 |
Direct child care providers shall keep protective coverings over exposed electrical outlets | 2019-12-30 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-48(a) Outlets in play spaces uncovered |
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| Licensing 2019-12-05 |
Licensee shall provide a two and one-half (2) pound or greater ABC multiple purpose fire extinguisher which shall be located on each floor of the building in which child care services are provided, including an additional extinguisher located in the kitchen area of the child care home | 2019-12-30 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-46(m) No fire extingisher in basement. No fire extinguisher upstairs. |
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| Licensing 2019-12-05 |
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 | 2019-12-30 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-46(l) No smoke detector on basement stairs. No smoke detector upstairs. |
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| Licensing 2019-12-05 |
The caregiver shall have stairways guarded by a gate or closed door. | 2019-12-30 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.2-4(a) Gate on stairway loose making stairs acessible |
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| Licensing 2018-10-23 |
The licensee shall maintain the following documentation in the child care home for review by the COFC: Documentation of certification of a current first aid course, training in Universal Precautions, and annual CPR certification by direct child care providers | 2018-10-23 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-32(a)(5) No proof of current CPR for staff |
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| Licensing 2018-10-23 |
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 | 2018-10-23 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-5-3(d)(2)&(e) FBI prints not current for one staff |
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| Licensing 2018-10-23 |
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 | 2018-12-21 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-34(a) No physical on file for one staff |
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| Licensing 2018-10-23 |
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 | 2019-01-04 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-45(a) No proof of safe sleep course for staff |
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| Licensing 2018-10-23 |
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 | 2019-01-04 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-1.1-28.5(c)(1) No current tb test on file for two staff |
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