Wisconsin Department of Children and Families - Division of Early Care and Education
Bureau of Early Care Regulation
Child Care Licensing Procedure Manual
Beginning in March of 2015, WISCCRS was modified to collect additional information regarding incidents and injuries occurring in child care centers. This data is documented in the Complaint/Incident Reporting Module. When BECR is notified via a self-report of a child’s accident or incident that results in the need for medical evaluation, injury caused by an animal or death, this is entered into the WISCCRS Complaint/Incident Reporting Module with tags that describe the specific location, cause and result of the injury or incident. The selection of descriptive tags is mandatory. The additional information entered in the module allows BECR to meet Federal Child Care and Development Block Grant reporting requirements, collect workload data associated with self-report follow up activities and compile general data regarding complaint and self-reported incidents.
When recording self-reports in WISCCRS, an investigation record must be documented even though the report may not require a formal investigation or investigation narrative. Unlike complaints, with self-reports, no “alleged rule violation” will be entered. Because there are no alleged rule violations, there will not be a finding of “substantiated” or “unsubstantiated” in the conclusion. However, the conclusion section would indicate either “No follow up required” or it will include a list of any rule violations that were identified during the course of the follow-up investigation of the self-report. See the WISCCRS User Guide, Complaints and Incident Reporting, for more information on entering self-reports and complaints.
BECR maintains a public informational website to assist consumers seeking child care. The Regulated Child Care and YoungStar Public Search website lists provider names, locations and other licensing information and details each provider’s regulatory history. The results of follow up investigations of incident, accident, injury and death reports that result in violations, as reflected on the Noncompliance Statement and Correction Plan or enforcement actions, are posted on the public search site.
8.1 Periodic Review of Incident, Accident, Death and Animal Injury Reports
8.2 Federal Reporting Requirements
This page last updated 10/2019.