Wisconsin Department of Children and Families - Division of Early Care and Education
Bureau of Early Care Regulation
Child Care Licensing Procedure Manual
Facilities assigned to the Maximum Monitoring Plan are in the most intensive monitoring plan. The baseline number of visits in the Maximum Monitoring Plan has been set with the expectation that each licensing specialist will make as many additional visits as necessary to bring the center into compliance. The baseline is as follows:
At least 3 monitoring visits per year for group child care centers with a licensed capacity of 51 or more children;
At least 2 monitoring visits per year for all other child care centers;
To meet this standard, because programs may not remain in a maximum monitoring plan for a full year, visits to a program assigned to this plan are scheduled for at least every three months, until compliance is verified.
The licensing specialist assigns a center to the Maximum Monitoring Plan when an enforcement action has been issued, including the following:
An order;
A forfeiture;
A two-week temporary closure;
A denial of a regular license;
A revocation; and
In consultation with the licensing manager/licensing supervisor on a case-by-case basis, a warning letter for no access. (See Section 7.)
When a center has been issued a denial of a regular license or a revocation but remains open during the appeal process, the center is assigned to the Maximum Monitoring Plan even though a denied or revoked center is not usually visited by the licensing specialist while in appeal status.
The licensing specialist should also consider assigning a licensee to the Maximum Monitoring Plan when a licensee has been suspended from the Wisconsin Shares subsidy program or the licensee has been suspended and is currently conditionally reinstated.
The licensing specialist reassigns the center to a less intensive monitoring plan when one of the following conditions has been met:
The enforcement action is no longer active, or all violations have been corrected, or
The warning letter for no access is no longer active, or
The licensee has been fully reinstated in the Wisconsin Shares subsidy program.
This page last updated 10/2020.