Day care in new york and how i
Day care in new york and how iCurrently there are only about twelve or so day-care investigators
on Long Island, whose responsibilities are to inspect and monitor all 1,659
providers caring for 35,319 preschool children in Nassau and Suffolk
Counties. This number of investigators is insufficient, and has hindered the
ability of these two counties to properly inspect the quality of day care in
their areas.
These inspectors are called licensors or licensing representatives,
who are civil servants and make a maximum of $44,739 this year. For an
individual to be able to become an inspector of child care in the state of
New York, the requirements are at least six years of experience as an
inspector of day-care or other children's programs or as a designer or
reviewer of various social services programs, as well as some background
in case management.
The requirements in New York appear to be much stiffer than those
in many other states. For example, California requires simply a college
degree or six months experience with the state.
Top officials have stated that all over the state of New York
investigators have been struggling with their work as a result of the recent
surge in day-care providers. The state has said that licensors will arquire
help in the very near future. The help will arrive in two forms:
reinforcements and computers.
In New York State this year, the number of cases per licensor is at
its lowest since five years ago. It has dropped from 165 to 156 cases per
licensor. During the next year, the state of New York will commission
eleven or so workers at the Suffolk Department of Social Services and the
Child Care Council of Suffolk to, working under contract with the state,
inspect day-care providers in the county. This is in an attemp to lighten
the work loads of the licensors in Suffolk county. "It swells our ranks in
terms of people who are out there actually doing inspections and are...
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