on Long Island, whose responsibilities are to inspect and monitor all 1,659

providers caring for 35,319 preschool children in Nassau and Suffolk

Counties. This number of investigators is insufficient, and has hindered the

ability of these two counties to properly inspect the quality of day care in

These inspectors are called licensors or licensing representatives,

who are civil servants and make a maximum of $44,739 this year. For an

individual to be able to become an inspector of child care in the state of

New York, the requirements are at least six years of experience as an

inspector of day-care or other children's programs or as a designer or

reviewer of various social services programs, as well as some background

The requirements in New York appear to be much stiffer than those

in many other states. For example, California require

terms of people who are out there actually doing inspections and are able

surge in day-care providers. The state has said that licensors will arquire

called the Child Care Facility System. This system will allow investigators

New York have developed two new training tools for the investigators.

regulation. The system will do away with the current abundance of stacks

investigators do their jobs more efficiently.

investigators have been struggling with their work as a result of the recent

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