Description: Helping Hands Daycare is a Licensed Family Child Care in Marathon WI, with a maximum capacity of 8 children. The home-based daycare service helps with children in the age range of 6 Week(s) - 13 Year(s). 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.
| Violation Date | Rule Number | Rule Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-04 | Licensing | No violations found *** |
| 2019-04-08 | 250.09(4)(b) | Infant & Toddler - Diaper Changing Surface - Disinfection |
| Description: Provider has not been using the two step cleaning/disinfecting process after diaper changes. | ||
| 2019-04-08 | 250.09(1)(c)5. | Infant & Toddler - Use Of Safety Gates |
| Description: The safety gate for the open stairway was not in place while the children were awake. | ||
| 2018-06-05 | Licensing | Orders Letter |
| 2018-05-24 | 250.05(3)(i) | Close Supervision Of Children |
| Description: Based on investigation, Staff A left children unattended inside the house at the end of the day when she went outside to get children's craft projects. At the time, some children were in the basement and some were on the first level of the home. Staff A did not have sight or sound supervision of the children for approximately 5 minutes. | ||
| 2018-05-24 | 250.04(6)(b) | Current, Accurate Daily Attendance Record |
| Description: The licensee has only been documenting partial hours of attendance for child 1. Documentation on the attendance sheet indicates child 1 attends from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily when the child actually attends from about 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily. | ||
| 2018-05-24 | 250.04(1)(a) | Licensed Capacity |
| Description: Based on investigation, there have been nine children in care at least a couple days a week from 04/09/2018 to 05/18/2018. | ||
| 2018-05-24 | 250.04(3)(e) | Report - Convictions, Pending Charges, Other Offenses |
| Description: The licensee did not report to the Department pending charges of a household member. | ||
| 2018-05-24 | 250.04(5)(d) | Staff File - Days, Hours Worked |
| Description: Based on investigation, the provider had been leaving the center for approximately 1 to 1-1/2 hours on Friday mornings and was not signing out. | ||
| 2018-04-10 | Licensing | Direct Forfeiture: $200 |
| 2018-04-05 | 250.04(6)(a) | Child Record - Maintenance, Availability |
| Description: Three children in care of the licensee did not have a child record/file. When asked, the licensee indicated she was helping a friend, and she did not have a file for them. | ||
| 2018-04-05 | 250.04(6)(b) | Current, Accurate Daily Attendance Record |
| Description: A review of the daily attendance record indicated 8 children were in care of the center; however, there were three additional children found in the home who were not signed in on the attendance roster but were in the care of the licensee. The licensee also acknowledged that one other child had left the center shortly before the licensor arrived, but was not signed out. This child returned to the center during the site visit and was not signed out or back in on the attendance sheet. | ||
| 2018-04-05 | 250.04(2)(c) | Current, Accurate Information |
| Description: At the site visit on 04/05/2018, the licensee did not provide accurate information to the licensing specialist regarding the number of children in care. The licensee stated that she had 8 children in care. After further inspection of the home, 11 children were observed to be in care. The licensee had attempted to hide 3 children in the basement in a dark room. One child was in a pack and play and two children were huddled together under some furniture holding a light stick. | ||
| 2018-04-05 | 250.06(2)(a) | Electrical Or Hot Surface Protection |
| Description: One outlet in the living room and 2 outlets in the kitchen did not have outlet plugs. | ||
| 2018-04-05 | 250.04(1)(a) | Licensed Capacity |
| Description: At the start of the site visit on 04/05/2018, 10 children were present. The second provider arrived approximately 20 minutes into the visit bringing her infant son with her making the number of children in care 11. | ||
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