NYC has a backlog of 140 incomplete background checks of day care workers
The city is contending with a backlog of 140 incomplete background checks of day care providers and employees, weeks after the death of a 1-year-old boy at a Bronx day care center that also operated as an illegal drug distributor.
The city requires anyone working in its nearly 10,000 child care centers – as well as any adult living at a home-based day care program – to pass a background check, which providers could conduct themselves up until 2019, Schiff said that by last summer, that led to an “extraordinary” backlog of tens of thousands of background checks that took two months to clear.
Local elected officials are now pushing for a package of bills aimed at rectifying the city’s slow moving oversight into its day care centers. In addition to a billto coordinate with other agencies on approvals for these day care centers.
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