Wisconsin Department of Children and Families - Division of Early Care and Education
Bureau of Early Care Regulation
Child Care Certification Policy Manual
Operators that are suspended are considered out of regulatory compliance in YoungStar. Once the category status in WISCCRS is changed to 'suspended' and the category end date is changed to the date the operator was suspended, the operator will be removed from the Child Care Finder Public Search website the following day. All subsidy authorizations will automatically end on the first of the month following the suspension date. The operator will no longer appear on the Active Provider WebI reports after the suspension date.
If the suspension is appealed, the certification worker should change the category status to 'Certification Suspended - Appeal Received'. The category end date will remain the date the certification was suspended. This will prevent any new subsidy authorizations from being issued to the operator. Suspended operators in appeal status are not included on the Child Care Finder Public Search website because their category end date is in the past.
If/when the operator is deemed to be in regulatory compliance by the certification worker, the certification worker does not modify the existing suspended category but instead adds a new category with the reinstatement date as the new begin date. In this way the suspension is lifted and the operator will show as a 1 Star rated provider on the Child Care Finder Public Search website until the first of the following month. The YoungStar rating will be changed to 2 Star (even if the operator was previously 3, 4, or 5 Star rated) on the first of the following month, at which time authorizations can begin. There will be a gap in the regulatory approval from the date of the suspension to the date of the reinstatement, preventing Wisconsin Shares authorizations from being entered.
Note: Unlike a revocation appeal, there is no need to notify the Department if an operator appeals a suspension. This is because WISCCRS requires an “end date” for the suspension category and the operator will automatically be removed from the YoungStar Public Search Website.
This page last updated 01/2020.