Description: Helping Hands Day Care is a Group Family Day Care in Bay Shore NY, with a maximum capacity of 16 children. The home-based daycare service helps with children in the age range of 12 children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years AND 4 additional school-aged children. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
Additional Information: Initial License Date: 9/5/2012; This facility is authorized to administer over-the-counter topical ointments only; Care is available during non-traditional hours; This facility is authorized to administer medications;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.
| Date | Type | Regulations | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-08 | Monitoring | Monitoring | 2025-I-LIRO-121017 |
| Brief Description: Violations Found | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.3(j) | Not Corrected |
| Brief Description: The home must have adequate indoor space for the comfort of the children and to accommodate a variety of activities for the number of children in care. | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.4(h)(4) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: All paths of egress on the interior and exterior of the home, including corridors, aisles and approaches must be kept free of obstructions, impediments and debris at all times. | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.5(a) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Suitable precautions must be taken to eliminate all conditions in areas accessible to children which pose a safety or health hazard. | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.5(b)(2) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The emergency evacuation diagram must be posted in a visible location. | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.5(v) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Operating carbon monoxide detectors must be used in all group family day care homes when required, and located in areas of the home in accordance with applicable laws. | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.7(r) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Sleeping surfaces, including bedding, which is the removable and washable portion of the sleeping environment, must not come in contact with the sleeping surfaces of another child's rest equipment during storage. Mats and cots must be stored so that the sleeping surfaces do not touch when stacked. | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.7(v) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Television and other electronic visual media must be turned off when not part of a planned developmentally appropriate program activity. | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.8(p) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Visitor control procedures. | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.11(c)(1) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The Licensee must prepare a health care plan on forms furnished by the Office. Such plan must protect and promote the health of children. The health care plan must be on site, followed by all caregivers and available upon demand by a parent or the Office. In those instances in which the program will administer medications, the health care plan must also be approved by the program's health care consultant unless the only medications to be administered are: | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.15(c)(1) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The program must maintain on file at the group family day care home, available for inspection a copy of the evacuation plan, evacuation drills, and shelter-in-place drills conducted, on forms furnished by the Office or approved equivalents, as required in sections 416.4 and 416.5 of this Part; | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.15(c)(5) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The program must maintain on file at the group family day care home, available for inspection daily attendance records that are filled out at the time a child arrives and departs, and must include arrival and departure times; | |||
| 2025-12-08 | Violation | 416.15(c)(13) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The program must maintain on file at the group family day care home, available for inspection: a daily schedule documenting the arrival and departure times of each caregiver, employees and volunteers; | |||
| 2025-09-26 | Other | Other | 2025-I-LIRO-104023 |
| Brief Description: Violations Found | |||
| 2025-09-26 | Violation | 416.11(c)(1) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The Licensee must prepare a health care plan on forms furnished by the Office. Such plan must protect and promote the health of children. The health care plan must be on site, followed by all caregivers and available upon demand by a parent or the Office. In those instances in which the program will administer medications, the health care plan must also be approved by the program's health care consultant unless the only medications to be administered are: | |||
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