Linda Tautges of Brainerd listened to discussion during a Crow Wing County Family Child Care Association meeting for its members and families to discu
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Linda Tautges of Brainerd listened to a discussion during a Crow Wing County Family Child Care Association meeting.
Day-Care Threat series

Day-care owners fear coming changes in state

December 9, 2012
Care providers brace for an indiscriminate crackdown as the state weighs tougher rules.
OVERLAND PARK, KS - AUGUST 17, 2012 NOTE*** THIS SCENARIO, visiting a home daycare provider, WAS SET UP BY THE JOHNSON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN ORD
The day-care threat

Pushed by grieving parents, Kansas makes sweeping reforms

September 17, 2012
Kansas confronted child-care safety lapses five years ago and now receives national accolades from child advocates. It could hold a lesson for Minnesota and other states.

Home day cares present extra set of challenges

October 22, 2012
More than 700 home daycares have been shut down since 2002 for violations ranging from drinking to domestic violence.
House on Gorman St. in West St. Paul that is the location of a daycare center where abuse of children allegedly took place. Authorities are interviewi

Sexual abusers in day cares are often other kids

October 22, 2012
More than 65 children have been sexually abused in Minnesota child-care facilities since 2007 in cases often linked to supervision failures by in-home providers.

Child-care providers can keep guns in home

July 15, 2012
Laws limit accessibility, but the penalties are uneven.

Child-care providers have 2 sets of rules

July 15, 2012
Minnesota has some of the leanest training requirements in the nation for in-home child care, according to a Star Tribune review of licensing data.
Child care

Lack of child-care records puts Minnesota kids at risk

May 30, 2012
Minnesota lags in posting data on licensing problems, safety violations.