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View Poll Results: How many UNANNOUNCED inspections/visits per year?
none 10 28.57%
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3-4 5 14.29%
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Blackcat31 08:42 AM 08-15-2013
Aside from the scheduled appointments we make with our licensors, how often do you actually receive drop in or unannounced visits from your licensor or agency PER YEAR?

I don't mean how many are you SUPPOSE to have but how many per year do you actually have?
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MrsSteinel'sHouse 08:46 AM 08-15-2013
I am suppose to have 2 and have always had 2 unannounced visits.
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Laurel 08:50 AM 08-15-2013
Originally Posted by Blackcat31:
Aside from the scheduled appointments we make with our licensors, how often do you actually receive drop in or unannounced visits from your licensor or agency PER YEAR?

I don't mean how many are you SUPPOSE to have but how many per year do you actually have?
Well we have 4 per year but we know which month it will be. We just don't know the day. Sometimes it runs over into the next month though. We CAN have them anytime but it has never happened. It is always every 3 months and 1 of those is a relicensing visit. We get relicensed every year. The relicensing visit is really no different than any other visit except we are supposed to have zero things wrong. But if we have something wrong, we can correct it and she can come back.

Laurel
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Crystal 09:09 AM 08-15-2013
I went 6 years without an unannounced inspection. Not frequent enough, IMO.
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originalkat 09:16 AM 08-15-2013
We are supposed to have 1 per year unless a complaint is called in and then they will do an unannounced for that as well. I always get one per year. I used to be able to know about the month they would be coming but it seems like they are running about 3-4 months late now.
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Blackcat31 09:22 AM 08-15-2013
Originally Posted by Crystal:
I went 6 years without an unannounced inspection. Not frequent enough, IMO.
I agree.

I know of a provider in another part of the state than I am in that got licensed about 10 years ago. She has never (that's right, never) had an unannounced visit.

We are re-licensed every two years.
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daycarediva 09:27 AM 08-15-2013
Here we are re-licensed every 2 years for your first renewal, and then every 4 years. I have had 1 unannounced visit this year, and am supposed to have 1. They only have enough staff in past years to do 50% of licensed homes but they have since had their budget upped and can now inspect everyone in my area annually. In previous years, I have not been inspected at all unannounced, just my relicensing inspections (scheduled of course)
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mema 09:57 AM 08-15-2013
I have only had 1 every other year in the month that I am relicensed. So, not sure if you considered that unannounced as I know the month, just not day/time. I have never had a visit just because.
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Play Care 10:26 AM 08-15-2013
When I was first licensed we had to renew every two years. During that time I never had a pop in licensing visit, mostly because they were too busy keeping up with renewals. A couple of years ago they changed renewal to every 4 years so they could be free to do more pop ins. Our licensor said they shoot for a pop in every few months - so 4 a year. It doesn't matter to me but I do feel bad because it seems every time she does visit, I'm closed (no dc kids).
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MsLaura529 10:43 AM 08-15-2013
I haven't had any yet ... but I've only been open since March and had my scheduled visit in late April. BUT I was JUST coming onto the forum to post this came question! All of this talk about these surprise inspections lately have got me curious as to when mine will show up Thanks BC for reading my mind!
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Laurel 10:45 AM 08-15-2013
Oh and we don't have any by appointment. All of ours are called 'unanounced' even though we know the month.

Laurel
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melilley 10:49 AM 08-15-2013
In MI, I think that our budget/resources are almost non-existent so I think that surprise inspections are rare and if they do do them they draw out of a pool. We do have to get re-licensed or registered every 3 years.
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MsLaura529 10:56 AM 08-15-2013
Originally Posted by melilley:
In MI, I think that our budget/resources are almost non-existent so I think that surprise inspections are rare and if they do do them they draw out of a pool. We do have to get re-licensed or registered every 3 years.
Good to know. Ahh, Michigan ... someday I hope that "budget" can be used in a positive way regarding our state.
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Unregistered 11:09 AM 08-15-2013
We renew our registrations every two years and have a thorough inspection then. In between times we have one "update" visit (the next year) where if anything new is going on or we have questions they will go over. My last one was on outside time with kids and how important it is.

All our scheduled visits though and there is never an "unannouned" one except I guess maybe if you were to have a complaint.
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Unregistered 11:13 AM 08-15-2013
Once every five years ..
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EntropyControlSpecialist 12:03 PM 08-15-2013
Now, I will only have 1-2. For the first 1.5 years, I had a whopping total of 6/7 (I can't remember)! I loved that licensor but it was exhausting trying to discuss things with her/get her the files/etc. and attempting to monitor the children effectively and/or "relax" if she came during the naptime break and stayed until they were up and had snack/were playing after.
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MarinaVanessa 12:05 PM 08-15-2013
I didn't vote in the poll because I don't have yearly inspections but I also don't NOT ever have inspections. We are supposed to have unnannounced inspections every 3 years and I've always had them every 3 years. We don't have scheduled licensing visits except for our first inspection before we can get our license.
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CedarCreek 12:11 PM 08-15-2013
I get an unannounced visit once per year even though registered homes don't have to have them that often. That's fine with me, though.
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MyAngels 12:45 PM 08-15-2013
We're supposed to have at least one inspection per year, with the every three year renewal visit counting as one. They've been good about it for the past five years, but in the 15 years before that I never had an unannounced visit, only the scheduled renewal visits every three years.
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Unregistered 01:16 PM 08-15-2013
My licensor said I was inspected every year. I had my last inspection in 2008. I never got one after, announced OR unannounced. But it's on my license I did. I have tried correcting but no one ever fixes it. It's OUTRAGEOUS
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grandmom 03:21 PM 08-15-2013
every 18 months.
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Crazy8 04:01 PM 08-15-2013
Originally Posted by Crystal:
I went 6 years without an unannounced inspection. Not frequent enough, IMO.
I had the same experience when I was licensed! Its one of the reasons I didn't renew.
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e.j. 04:14 PM 08-15-2013
I didn't vote because although I believe we're supposed to have one unannounced visit per year, it seems to depend on the licensor. I've had several different licensors throughout the years. My 1st licensor visited twice during my first year of business and found no problems. After that, I only saw him for licensing renewal visits every 3 years. Those visits were always scheduled. My 2nd licensor visited once every year and the visits were all unannounced except for the renewal visit which was scheduled. My 3rd licensor showed up once two years ago, unannounced, for my renewal visit. According to my online profile, I've been assigned to a new licensor. I haven't met her yet so I'm not sure what to expect.
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mom2many 05:11 PM 08-15-2013
Usually every 3 years- sometimes it's 3 1/2 though.
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blandino 05:34 PM 08-15-2013
We have 3 yearly.

We have a large license and used to have 4 early ( 3 unannounced and 1 announced), they got rid of the announced visit, because with warning most people are going to correct/hide any non-compliances, so I doubt those were very productive.
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snbauser 05:41 PM 08-15-2013
I picked 1-2. We are supposed to get a visit twice a year with one of them being our re-licensing visit. They are all unannounced. I usually only see my licenser once a year.
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Heidi 06:04 PM 08-15-2013
I picked 1-2, although it was more the first year I was licensed again, in 2011.

It was almost exactly a year since my last visit, and she came Tuesday. I don't currently have a licenser because of personnel changes, but a sub came.

They do NOT tell us the time frame. WI likes to be very non-committal about how many times they might come.
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