Tag: child safety

New Bills Target Child Safety

Early Childhood Education

May 10th, 2024

As we wrote in March, a handful of tragic incidents across the state have shone a spotlight on child safety and abuse risks at child care centers. Health and safety complaints to the Office of Child Care Licensing are up 30 percent over the last year, according to the Department of Education, which oversees child care licensing.  In...

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Tragic Child Care Incidents: Wake-Up Call for Delaware

Early Childhood Education

March 18th, 2024

Although Delaware has some of the strongest licensing policies in terms of what types of child care are required to be licensed (almost no program is exempt) and what the requirements are for the workforce, several incidents of injury and even death of children have occurred in recent years. These include murder, smothering, physical abuse...

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