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Parkside III

Newark, NJ · Essex County
567 Broadway, Newark, NJ 07104
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Quick Facts

Capacity
98 children
Age Range
0 - 13 years
Subsidized Program
Participates
State Rating
1

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Contact Information

📞 (973) 732-4807
567 Broadway
Newark, NJ 07104
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✓ Licensed Child Care Center
Active License
License Number
101000131
License Issued
Dec 8, 2025
Active Through
Dec 8, 2028
Issued By
New Jersey Department of Children & Families
District Office
New Jersey Dept of Children and Families - Office of Licensing

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About the Provider

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Parkside III is a Child Care Center in Newark NJ, with a maximum capacity of 98 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 0 - 13 years. It is open Monday - Friday, 07:30 AM - 06:00 PM. The provider also participates in a subsidized child care program.

Hours of Operation

  • Monday07:30 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Tuesday07:30 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Wednesday07:30 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Thursday07:30 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Friday07:30 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Saturday Closed
  • Sunday Closed

Inspection/Report History

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Inspection Date Type Reinspection / Rule Details
2026-09-08 Monitoring No Center Inspection
2025-11-14 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2025-09-30 Renewal No Center Inspection
2025-02-28 Other No Center Inspection
2024-06-25 Email Yes Center Inspection
2024-06-10 Email Yes Center Inspection
2024-06-03 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2024-05-15 Email Yes Center Inspection
2024-05-03 Email Yes Center Inspection
2024-05-03 Monitoring No Center Inspection
2024-01-25 Email Yes Center Inspection
2023-12-20 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2023-11-20 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2023-10-13 Monitoring No Center Inspection
2023-10-13 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2023-09-06 Email Yes Center Inspection
2023-08-01 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2023-06-12 Email Yes Center Inspection
2023-04-18 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2023-03-13 Complaint Yes Center Inspection
2023-03-13 Complaint Yes Center Inspection
2023-03-13 Violation 3A:52-6.3(b)(3)(ii)(3) Based on the Complaint # 21892, the center needs to ensure the needs of the children are met at all times including ensuring that the children are provided with their food provided from home and contact parents for approval to provide center foods. - For early childhood programs, the following shall apply, feeding requirements for centers serving children less than 18 months of age are as follows: for children less than 12 months of age, the feeding plan shall be made available to each staff member responsible for feeding each child.
2023-02-28 Email Yes Center Inspection
2023-01-18 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2022-12-07 Monitoring Yes Center Inspection
2022-12-07 Monitoring Yes Center Inspection
2022-12-07 Violation 3A:52-6.6(a)(1) Based on information, ensure that staff utilize positive methods of guidance and discipline at all times throughout the center. A named staff slapped a named child on the upper arm for misbehaving at lunch time. The named staff also aggressively repositioned the named child on his cot during nap time. - The methods of guidance and discipline used shall: be positive.
2022-12-07 Violation 3A:52-5.3(r) Based on information, ensure that adequate procedures for incidents are adhered to at all times, including recognizing and reporting possible incidents of child abuse and neglect. - The center shall take any steps required by the Office of Licensing to correct conditions in the building or center that may endanger the health, safety, and well-being of the children served.
2022-12-07 Violation 3A:52-7.9(a)(1)(vi)(4) Maintain an illness log on file at the center and ensure that it contains all of the required components, including the date when the child returned to the center symptom-free. - For early childhood programs, the following shall apply: the center shall maintain on file a log of the initial illnesses, symptoms of illness, or diseases that are exhibited by each child while in the center’s care, as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-7.1(c) and (d). This illness log shall include the date, if applicable, that the child returned to the center symptom-free.
2022-10-25 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2022-10-04 Complaint Yes Center Inspection
2022-10-04 Complaint Yes Center Inspection
2022-10-04 Violation 3A:52-6.7(a) Based on Complaint # 21282, the center needs to ensure the use of positive methods of guidance and discipline consistent with children's age and developmental needs: prohibit corporal and/or emotional punishment. - Staff members shall not use hitting, shaking or any other form of corporal punishment of children.
2022-10-04 Violation 3A:52-4.8(a)(7) Ensure that all staff are retrain in the center's discipline policy. - Topics of orientation training shall include implementing the center's statement of policy on the disciplining of children, as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-6.6.
2022-10-04 Violation 3A:52-7.6(b)(1) Complete accident reports as required, including the name of the injured child. At the time of the inspection a review of the video an incident occurred was aggressively placed on a cot. - The center shall maintain on file a written record of each incident resulting in an injury as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-7.6(a). These records shall include the following: the name of the injured child.
2022-10-04 Violation 3A:52-7.6(a)(2) Ensure that parents are notified immediately when a child sustains a head or facial injury, including when a child bumps his or her head. At the time of the inspection a review of the video an incident occurred was aggressively placed on a cot. - The center shall take immediate necessary action to protect the child from further harm and shall immediately notify the child's parent(s) when a child sustains a head or facial injury, including when a child bumps his or her head.
2022-10-04 Violation 3A:52-5.3(r) Ensure all center staff report immediately to the State Center Registry Hotline children that are being subjected to any form of hitting, corporal punishment, abusive language, ridicule, harsh, humiliating or frightening treatment, or any other kind of child abuse, neglect by any adult, - The center shall take any steps required by the Office of Licensing to correct conditions in the building or center that may endanger the health, safety, and well-being of the children served.
2022-10-04 Violation 3A:52-4.11(a)(1) Ensure that 1 staff complete a CHRI background check as required. - As a condition of securing a license or Certificate of Life/Safety Approval, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall ensure that a Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) fingerprint background check is completed for himself or herself, and for all staff members at least 18 years of age who are or will be working at the center on a regularly- scheduled basis, to determine whether any such person has been convicted of a crime, as specified in P.L. 2000, c. 77 (N.J.S.A. 30:5B-6.10 to 6.17). The sponsor or sponsor representative and each staff member shall complete the electronic fingerprinting process through the vendor authorized by the State to conduct CHRI background checks through the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
2022-10-04 Violation 3A:52-4.10(a)(1) Ensure that CARI background checks are completed as required for 1. - The sponsor or sponsor representative, and each staff member shall complete a signed consent form provided by the Department that indicates the identifying information necessary to conduct a CARI background check, including the person’s name, address, date of birth, sex, race, and Social Security number. Pursuant to the Federal Privacy Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-579), the Department shall advise each such person that the disclosure of his or her Social Security number is voluntary, and that the Social Security number will only be used for the purpose of conducting a CARI background check.
2022-10-04 Violation 3A:52-6.7(b) Ensure that the staff do not utilize any form of emotional punishment at any time in the center in room 5. At the time of the inspection observation of video footage revealed a named staff placing the children blankets over their heads. - Staff members shall not use abusive language, ridicule, harsh, humiliating or frightening treatment or any other form of emotional punishment of children.
2022-09-23 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2022-09-20 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2022-09-20 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2022-09-20 Violation 3A:52-5.2(b) Ensure that the center's fire protective systems are operative at all times. - An applicant seeking a license or a Certificate of Life/Safety Approval to operate a center shall comply with all applicable provisions of the New Jersey Uniform Fire Code, as specified in N.J.A.C. 5:70 and hereinafter referred to as the NJUFC. The center shall obtain the building's fire safety inspection certificate issued by the municipality in which it is located, based on a fire inspection conducted within the preceding 12 months, reflecting the center's compliance with all applicable provisions of the NJUFC. The center shall maintain on file the building's fire safety inspection certificate.
2022-09-20 Violation 3A:52-5.3(m)(2) Ensure exit door are easily operable in the Playroom by room 4 Sick Room. - Supplemental evacuation requirements are as follows: cribs, beds, playpens, and cots used for rest or sleep shall be arranged so as to provide access to a three-foot-wide aisle that leads to an unobstructed exit.
2022-08-12 Email Yes Center Inspection
2022-08-01 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2022-08-01 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2022-08-01 Violation 3A:52-4.11(a)(1) Ensure that 1 new staff complete a CHRI background check as required. - As a condition of securing a license or Certificate of Life/Safety Approval, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall ensure that a Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) fingerprint background check is completed for himself or herself, and for all staff members at least 18 years of age who are or will be working at the center on a regularly- scheduled basis, to determine whether any such person has been convicted of a crime, as specified in P.L. 2000, c. 77 (N.J.S.A. 30:5B-6.10 to 6.17). The sponsor or sponsor representative and each staff member shall complete the electronic fingerprinting process through the vendor authorized by the State to conduct CHRI background checks through the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
2022-06-30 Renewal,Monitoring No Center Inspection
2022-06-30 Renewal,Monitoring No Center Inspection
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-4.4(a)(2) Ensure that a primary caregiver is assigned to each group of six toddlers in room 2. - For early childhood programs, the following shall apply for infants (under 18 months of age) and toddlers (18 months to 2½ years of age): a group shall consist of four infants or six toddlers to whom a primary caregiver has been assigned.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-5.3(r) Ensure staff clean children’s faces when they have nasal secretions in room 2. At the time of the inspection there were several children’s faces with nasal secretions in room 3. - The center shall take any steps required by the Office of Licensing to correct conditions in the building or center that may endanger the health, safety, and well-being of the children served.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-6.6(f) Ensure that the staff signatures attesting to the receipt of the center's discipline policy are maintained on file. - The center shall secure and maintain on file each staff member's signature, attesting to receipt of the policy on the disciplining of children by staff members.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-6.3(b)(3)(ii)(2) Ensure that each child under 12 months of age has a written feeding plan maintained on file in room 1. - For early childhood programs, the following shall apply, feeding requirements for centers serving children less than 18 months of age are as follows: for children less than 12 months of age, the feeding plan shall be maintained on file.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-6.4(a)(1) Ensure that children under 12 months of age are placed in a face-up position in their sleeping equipment, unless it is contraindicated in writing by the child's health care provider in room 1. - For early childhood programs, the center shall provide opportunities for daily rest and sleep as follows: for children 12 months of age and younger, the center shall ensure that each child is initially placed in a face-up sleeping position unless a different position is indicated in writing by the child's health care provider.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-7.6(a)(1) Ensure that parents are notified immediately when a child is bitten and the skin is broken. - The center shall take immediate necessary action to protect the child from further harm and shall immediately notify the child's parent(s) when a child is bitten and the skin is broken.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-7.6(b)(2) Complete accident reports as required, including the date, time and location of the incident. - The center shall maintain on file a written record of each incident resulting in an injury as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-7.6(a). These records shall include the following: the date, time and location of the incident.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-7.6(b)(5) Complete accident reports as required, including the date the report was completed. - The center shall maintain on file a written record of each incident resulting in an injury as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-7.6(a). These records shall include the following: the date the report was completed.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-7.7(e)(1)(iv) Ensure that the center washes and disinfects toys mouthed by infants and toddlers before being given to another child in room 3. - For early childhood programs, the following shall apply: in addition to the items specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-7.7(a)3, the following equipment items or surfaces shall be washed and disinfected after each use, toys mouthed by infants and toddlers before being given to another child.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-6.8(h)(3)(ii) Ensure that the center provides parent/staff conferences semi-annually and upon request. - For early childhood programs, the following shall apply, the center shall provide for the direct involvement of parents of enrolled children in the center's operation and activities by holding individual parent/staff conferences semi-annually and upon request of the parent or staff member(s) to discuss the child’s needs and progress.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-4.6(a) Ensure that staff have a record of the medical exam on file. - The center shall maintain on file a Staff Records Checklist designated by the Office of Licensing, as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.1(b), indicating that the center has obtained documentation of the applicable staff education and experience, as specified in 3A:52-4.6(b) through (d).
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-4.10(b)(1) Ensure that 12 staff and sponsor representative submit a CARI background check upon renewal. 9/20/2022 Ensure that 6 staff and sponsor representative submit a CARI background check upon renewal. 10/25/2022 9/20/2022 Ensure that 1 named staff submit a CARI background check upon renewal. - When the center applies for a new or renewal license or Certificate of Life/Safety Approval, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall submit to the Department the completed CARI consent forms for all staff members who are or will be working at the center on a regularly scheduled basis. Within two weeks after a new staff member begins working at the center, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall submit to the Department a completed CARI consent form for the new staff member.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-4.11(a)(1) Ensure that 9 staff, the sponsor and/or the sponsor representative complete a CHRI background check as required for the center's license renewal. 8/12/2022 Ensure that 8 staff, the sponsor representative complete a CHRI background check as required for the center's license renewal. 9/20/2022 Ensure that 8 staff and the sponsor representative complete a CHRI background check as required for the center's license renewal. 10/25/2022 Ensure that 3 staff and the sponsor representative complete a CHRI background check as required for the center's license renewal. - As a condition of securing a license or Certificate of Life/Safety Approval, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall ensure that a Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) fingerprint background check is completed for himself or herself, and for all staff members at least 18 years of age who are or will be working at the center on a regularly- scheduled basis, to determine whether any such person has been convicted of a crime, as specified in P.L. 2000, c. 77 (N.J.S.A. 30:5B-6.10 to 6.17). The sponsor or sponsor representative and each staff member shall complete the electronic fingerprinting process through the vendor authorized by the State to conduct CHRI background checks through the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-4.5(c)(2)(ii) Ensure that the director designee completes the Understanding Licensing training provided by OOL. - The director or his or her designee(s) shall be on the premises at all times when the center is operating and the designee shall complete staff development in understanding licensing rules as provided by the Office.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-6.8(a)(1) Ensure that the center completes and maintains on file a children's records checklist. - The center shall complete and maintain on file for each enrolled child a Children’s Records Checklist, signed by the director, sponsor, or sponsor representative and designated by the Office of Licensing, indicating that the center has obtained documentation of the child's name, address, birth date, and date of enrollment.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-3.6(b)(1) Ensure that the center maintains and distributes to all staff a copy of the Information to Parents document and maintains on file signatures of all staff attesting to the receipt of the policy. - The center shall distribute a copy of the Information to Parents document to each child’s parent(s) upon enrollment and to every person upon becoming a staff member and secure and maintain on file a record of each parent’s and staff member’s signature attesting to receipt of the document. The center shall maintain on file a copy of the Information to Parents document.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-6.5(b) Ensure that the center maintains and distributes to all staff the center's policy on the release of children and will maintain on file signatures from all staff attesting to the receipt of the policy. - The center shall distribute a copy of the release policy to the parent of each enrolled child and each staff member and secure and maintain on file a record of each parent’s and staff member’s signature attesting to receipt of the policy.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-6.8(l) Develop and distribute to all staff a social media policy and maintain on file signatures from all staff attesting to the receipt of the policy. - The center shall distribute a copy of the social media policy to the parent of each enrolled child and to each staff member and secure and maintain on file a record of each parent’s signature and each staff member’s signature attesting to the receipt of the policy.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-3.4(a) Ensure that the center has a current comprehensive general liability insurance policy and maintains the documentation on file. - The sponsor or sponsor representative shall secure comprehensive general liability insurance coverage for the center and shall maintain on file a copy of the insurance policy or documentation of current insurance coverage.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-5.3(n)(1) Ensure that the center conducts fire drills at least once per month during each session provided at the center, including one fire drill annually that is conducted during nap time. - Fire prevention requirements are as follows: the center shall conduct fire drills at least once a month, as specified in the NJUFC. The center shall ensure that fire drills are conducted during each session provided at the center and that one fire drill per year is conducted during nap time, if applicable.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-5.3(l)(4) Ensure that the center conducts at least two lockdown drills per year during each session provided at the center and maintains records of the drills on file. - Emergency procedure requirements are as follows: the center shall conduct two lockdown drills per year and maintain on file a record of each lockdown drill. The center shall ensure that lockdown drills are conducted during each session provided at the center.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-5.3(m)(2) Ensure that the rear playground gate is unobstructed. At the time of the inspection the gate was locked. - Supplemental evacuation requirements are as follows: cribs, beds, playpens, and cots used for rest or sleep shall be arranged so as to provide access to a three-foot-wide aisle that leads to an unobstructed exit.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-5.2(a)(5) Ensure that all illuminated exit signs and emergency lighting are operable at all times hallway by art supplies room.. - The center shall be permitted to obtain a valid fire safety inspection certificate issued by the municipality in which it is located, based on a fire inspection conducted within the preceding 12 months, and submit a copy of the certificate to the Office of Licensing in lieu of a CO or CCO, if the center serves only children 2 ½ years of age or older and is located in a public school building that is used as a public school.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-5.3(a)(2) Repair or replace torn red couch in room 5. - Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: floors, carpeting, walls, window coverings, ceilings, and other surfaces shall be kept clean and in good repair.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-5.3(a)(4) Secure blue rug by water table in room 3. - Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: carpeting shall be securely fastened to the floor.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-5.3(c)(1) Ensure that all fluorescent tubes and incandescent light bulbs have protective coverings in room 2 bathroom. - Lighting requirements are as follows: all fluorescent tubes and incandescent light bulbs shall have protective covers or shields.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-5.3(a)(15) Clean mechanical vents in hallway bathroom by room 5. - Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: ventilation outlets shall be clean and free from obstructions, and filters shall be replaced when saturated.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-2.1(b) Complete and submit a DCF Renewal Application, Renewal Attestation and Renewal application fee. 9/20/2022 submit renewal application fee. - A person applying for an initial license or renewal license to operate a center or relocation of a center shall submit a completed application to the Office of Licensing at least 45 days prior to the anticipated opening of the center or to the expiration of its existing regular license.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-5.3(i)(5)(i) Complete and submit a DCF Drinking Water Testing Checklist and Statement of Assurance and a copy of the center's water testing completed by a laboratory certified by the Department of Environmental Protection. 2/24/2023 Submit a copy of the center's water testing completed by a laboratory certified by the Department of Environmental Protection. - Environmental condition precautions are as follows: at the time of the initial application, any renewal application, relocation of an existing licensed center and, in the discretion of the Office of Licensing, any other time, the applicant or facility operator shall certify in writing that the center provides a potable water supply provided by a public community water system. If the facility is supplied by a public community water system, the applicant or facility operator shall provide documentation of water testing conducted by a laboratory certified by the Department of Environmental Protection for water testing for lead and copper from all faucets and other sources used for drinking water or food preparation and at least 50 percent of all indoor water faucets utilized by the center.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-7.6(c) Ensure that parents are notified of injuries not requiring immediate notification by the end of the day. - Bites and injuries other than those specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-7.6(a) shall be reported to the child's parent by the end of the day.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-7.6(b)(6)(iv)(1) Complete accident reports as required, including the follow-up action taken by the center, including the application of first aid. - The center shall maintain on file a written record of each incident resulting in an injury as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-7.6(a). These records shall include the following: a written description of the follow-up action taken by the center, including the follow-up action taken by the center, including application of first aid.
2022-06-30 Violation 3A:52-4.8(g)(3) Ensure that all staff complete orientation training annually, and secure and maintain on file, each staff member's signature attesting to the review of the orientation training; .and that the completion of the training is documented on theStaff Records Checklist. 10/25/2022 Ensure that 9 named staff complete orientation training annually, and secure and maintain on file, each staff member's signature attesting to the review of the orientation training; .and that the completion of the training is documented on theStaff Records Checklist. - The center shall maintain on file documentation of the date, time, topic, presenter, and attendance for all staff development and orientation completed by center staff members. The center shall record each staff member’s completion of staff development and orientation on the Staff Records Checklist, as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.1(b).
2022-01-13 Email Yes Center Inspection
2022-01-11 Email Yes Center Inspection
2021-12-08 Email Yes Center Inspection
2021-11-08 Email Yes Center Inspection
2021-10-12 Email Yes Center Inspection
2021-09-14 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2021-07-29 Email Yes Center Inspection
2021-07-29 Monitoring No Center Inspection
2021-01-05 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2020-12-10 Monitoring No Center Inspection
2020-11-12 Email Yes Center Inspection
2020-10-13 Email Yes Center Inspection
2020-09-09 Email Yes Center Inspection
2020-09-08 Email Yes Center Inspection
2020-06-25 Re-Inspection Yes Center Inspection
2020-05-12 Email Yes Center Inspection
2020-05-11 Phone Call Yes Center Inspection

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