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Hi I was just wondering....
how do you check up on your daycare?
Is there a place you can call to or go to on the web that will let you know if the daycare your kids are going to have been sited with anything?
We trust them with our children and I'm just worried cuz I have not been able to figure out a way to find out if it is good daycare or not.
Thanks for your help.

Yes, there is a govt of Ontario site that does this. Don't know the specific URL, just go to the site and look around, it's there.

If the daycare is licensed, I believe by law, they have to post any warnings, siting etc at the daycare itself.... however, that may be for current issues. Resolved issues might not require to be posted.

The daycare that our child goes to does this, however, it doesn't mean things won't happen.

ie. Our child had his finger tip severed at daycare last year. It took us calling the Ministry of Children & Youth Services, (http://www.ontario.ca/ONT/portal51/licensedchildcare), to get any answers from the daycare as they were afraid we would sue them, and so didn't follow the proper steps in this instance. The daycare then had pop-in visits/inspections and recommendations for fixing the issues that made it unsafe in the first place.
If we hadn't, the daycare wouldn't have needed to post what happened or get the unsafe doors at the daycare child-proofed.

So, with that said. Try browsing that website above. It might give some info on what the daycare needs to post should they ever have had any problems. Hopefully there are none.

My son has already been bitten so bad you could see 6 puncture wounds, he had a stich in his head last year and just so many other things too
I just wonder if I can find out more about them as a company. It is a registered daycare. Probably 100 or so kids there.
But with daycare being so hard to get into in Milton you have to trust where they are

I find it interesting that I've had over 300 people look at this post but hardly any replies. lol
would it help if I posted the name of the daycare?
Would people be more interested in the post?
As I've said my son has gotten stiches, been bitten hard enough that I called the police, he's been scratched and bitten so many times I don't even know.
I just need to know how do I find out if it's safe?
The kids have been there for over 2 years now and feel some what comfortable.
My older daughter is feeling bullied there and I've talked to the teacher. They didn't even know it was happening. They didn't realize the games the kids were playing (I don't know the game my daughter called it a pizza game where someone has to be a janitor and the other older girls were making my daughter be a janitor) not that there's anything wrong with that job but for a child that wants to be something else and being forced to be a janitor I guess it was bothering her. Other things have happened that she has felt bullied as well.
I love some of the girls that work there but the turn around is so high
Daycare is so hard to find in Milton.
Plus my ex (the kids dad) refuses to go to a home based center
I just don't know what to do.
Any ideas?
Should I start a discussion board on that daycare or should I just leave it alone??

I agree with the others. Go with your gut.

If it does make you feel any better, my son has been bitten by other children so many times, I've lost count.
Many of which have drawn blood or where he had deep punctures or bruises that seemed to last forever.

He's also been scratched just as many times, even once from his forehead down his eye, cheek and chin. It looked horrible.
What my daycare did was talk to the parents of the children who do this and make sure they cut their childrens nails shorter.

In the case of biting, the children responsible are put in a time out, although most times they're too young to understand.
An accident report is written up any time one of the children has a bite, scratch, cut or bad bruise and how it happened and given to the parents to sign at the end of the day. They won't of course tell you which child did it though.

From what you said it sounds more like an issue w/ the children at the daycare. My son was a push-over for a long while, especially when younger children entered his classroom. They didn't know any better, and would hit, bite, push. He let them do it because he knew not to hurt them back. This could be the case with your children maybe?

I do know many other of my moms friends where there kids are getting bitten or scratched just as often. Not sure how old your children are, but from the infant room to the preschool room, this has been happening. It's gotten a lot better though as the children mature and learn.

Could you just talk to the teachers and assistants or the daycare director about it?

when my son was bitten there was no report cuz the teachers said they didn't hear him scream!
His older sister didn't do it and they told me it could have happened anywhere.
Um how does that happen when his older sisters teeth are way bigger then the mark that was left and they only go from home to daycare during the week?
I just wonder if the daycare has broken any rules or anything in regards to the ministry.
We also had a big thing with child protective services come in cuz a disgruntled ex-emplyee was upset but the way the teachers handled my son (he was having extreem temper tantrums and we went to a doctor and they told us what to do which I in turn told the teachers what to do) he's thankfully grown out of it and is a much happy boy
I'd love to put them somewhere else but the thing is that my ex wont allow them to be in home care and the waiting lists to have 2 kids at the same daycare in milton is crazy! I've had them on some waiting lists for over a year!
Argh guess I just need to vent about it and see if other parents feel the same way.
If anyone works at my daycare they'll know who I am just by the discriptions above lol
sorry my spelling sucks, they need a spell check on this thing lol