Wisconsin Department of Children and Families - Division of Early Care and Education

Bureau of Early Care Regulation

Child Care Licensing Procedure Manual

6.1 Minimum Monitoring Plan

Facilities assigned to the Minimum Monitoring Plan receive the minimum level of monitoring. This is the baseline number of unannounced monitoring visits the licensing specialist is expected to make during the specified time frame. The baseline number of visits in the Minimum Monitoring Plan has been set with the expectation that each licensing specialist will make as many additional visits as necessary to monitor for all licensing rules.  The baseline is as follows:

• At least 2 monitoring visits per year for group child care centers with a licensed capacity of 51 or more children;

• At least 1 monitoring visit per year for group child care centers with a licensed capacity up to 50 children;

• At least 1 monitoring visit per year for all family child care centers;

• At least 1 monitoring visit per year for the following facilities, regardless of capacity:

• Before and after-school programs that operate during school year only;

• Day camps;

• Summer-only group child care programs;

• Part-day pre-schools;

• Part-day Head Start programs;

• Group child care centers of any capacity that operate for less than 12 months of the year; and

• School-age programs of any capacity that operate before and/or after school during the school year and full time during the summer.

This page last updated 12/2018.