Wisconsin Department of Children and Families - Division of Early Care and Education
Bureau of Early Care Regulation
Child Care Licensing Procedure Manual
Good Faith refers to mitigating and aggravating factors that may impact the forfeiture amount. Mitigating factors include the following:
The incident was self-reported.
There was significant, but not complete correction of the violation. (For example, records that have been substantially, but not completely corrected and updated, or a fence that is three-quarters finished, but not completely erected.)
The effort devoted to attempts to correct the violations was sizable.
There was risk of harm to children as opposed to actual harm.
The center’s response to the incident, such as whether the center conducted its own investigation of the incident, whether and how staff was disciplined, if warranted, and whether the center initiated training or other instruction to prevent future occurrences of the violation.
Aggravating factors include the following:
A repeat violation was due to failure to correct.
A repeat violation was due to reoccurrence of the same violation following correction.
The incident was not self-reported.
Little or no effort was made to correct the violation.
Staff are improperly trained.
There was inadequate application of policies and procedures.
The center has a prior forfeiture for similar violation(s).
The center has previous enforcement action(s) related to similar violation(s).
This page last updated 05/2019.