Child Health and Safety
Alert! Click here for information about the November 23, 2009, safety recall of 2.1 million drop-side cribs manufactured by Stork Craft.
Know What to Do About the Flu - Influenza Guidance for Early Childhood Programs.
· Child care providers and other early childhood programs: Click here for recommended strategies to protect your employees and the children in your program from the spread of flu.
· The following link is to the federal government website that provides flu-related information for early childhood programs, parents, and the general public:
http://www.flu.gov/
· The following link is to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) publication Preparing for the Flu (Including the 2009 H1N1 Flu): A Communication Toolkit for Child Care and Early Childhood Programs:
http://pandemicflu.gov/professional/school/childtoolkit.html
· The following link is to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) web page dedicated to the H1N1 flu virus. It provides information about flu-related school closings, hospitalizations, and other issues.
http://dhmh.state.md.us/swineflu/
Other Child Health and Safety Topics
· Click here to visit the DECD Office of Child Care's licensing compliance reports site. This site provides free public access to findings from routine licensing inspections conducted since mid-2007. The on-line inspection database is updated monthly to include recently conducted inspections. NOTE: To make sure the site displays properly, please set your computer to accept cookies [How?].