Creative Minds Family Day Care is child care in the provider's own home. New York State licenses this kind of home (“group family day care”) for up to 12 children plus 4 school-age children; an assistant must be on hand once more than eight children are present. State inspectors check it, not the city Health Department. The state's file shows 5 inspection visits, most recently Oct 20, 2026, with 12 violations not yet shown as fixed. Per the state's record, this provider has violations the record does not yet show as fixed. Its license or registration runs through Jul 30, 2027 in the state registry. Everything we publish for this record is free.
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Inspection history
Every state inspection visit on record for this home, newest first, from New York State's public file. We show the record as it stands and don't grade it.
How to read this record
- New York State inspects home programs at least once a year unannounced, when the license or registration comes up for renewal, and after complaints. Every visit is listed with its date and result.
- Violations found means inspectors cited one or more rule violations on that visit. Each one lists the rule, what it requires, and whether the record shows it corrected (fixed) or still uncorrected.
- The state doesn't publish severity rankings the way the city does for daycare centers. Read the description itself, and ask the provider about anything that worries you.
- To double-check anything or request the fuller file, open the official state record or get a pre-filled records-request letter, using the buttons under the inspection list. More in our methodology.
Official rule text — what the state requires: Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a caregiver's range of vision except as provided in section 416.8(b) of this Part and that the caregiver be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age, emotional, physical and cognitive development.
What this means
Practice Children must be supervised at all times. The state's wording defines this as awareness of what each child is doing, with every child in a caregiver's range of vision except where the rule allows otherwise, and a caregiver close enough to step in. The public record does not describe what was seen.
Worth asking: How are the children supervised during naps, meals and outdoor play?
Official rule text — what the state requires: With the exception of children meeting the criteria of section 416.11(a)(6), children enrolled in child day care must remain current with their immunizations in accordance with the current schedule for required immunizations established in the New York Public Health Law.
What this means
Records Children enrolled in child day care must remain current with their immunizations under the schedule in the New York Public Health Law, apart from children covered by the exceptions in 416.11(a)(6). The citation concerns a child whose immunizations were not current.
Worth asking: How does the program track each child's immunization dates?
Official rule text — what the state requires: the forms necessary for the Office to inquire whether the applicant is the subject of an indicated report of child abuse or maltreatment on file with the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment,
What this means
Records Among the background check paperwork a program must keep on file are the forms needed to ask whether an applicant is the subject of an indicated report of child abuse or maltreatment at the Statewide Central Register. The citation concerns that paperwork, and the public record does not say what was missing.
Worth asking: Are the required background check forms on file, and who reviews them?
Official rule text — what the state requires: the forms necessary to check the register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect maintained by the Justice Center for the Protection of Persons with Special Needs pursuant to Section 495 of the Social Services Law,
What this means
Records Among the background check paperwork a program must keep on file are the forms needed to check the Justice Center's register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect. The citation concerns that paperwork, and the public record does not say what was missing.
Worth asking: Are the required background check forms on file, and who reviews them?
Official rule text — what the state requires: Barriers must exist to prevent children from gaining access to unsafe, dangerous or hazardous areas or devices. Such areas and devices include, but are not limited to, holes, pits, wood, pellet and coal burning stoves, fireplaces and permanently installed gas space heaters.
Official rule text — what the state requires: Each group family day care home shall require visitors to the home to: sign in upon entry to the premises;
Official rule text — what the state requires: With the exception of children meeting the criteria of section 416.11(a)(6), children enrolled in child day care must remain current with their immunizations in accordance with the current schedule for required immunizations established in the New York Public Health Law.
What this means
Records Children enrolled in child day care must remain current with their immunizations under the schedule in the New York Public Health Law, apart from children covered by the exceptions in 416.11(a)(6). The citation concerns a child whose immunizations were not current.
Worth asking: How does the program track each child's immunization dates?
Official rule text — what the state requires: The program must maintain on file at the group family day care home, available for inspection daily attendance records that are filled out at the time a child arrives and departs, and must include arrival and departure times;
What this means
Records The program must keep daily attendance records on file at the home, filled out when each child arrives and leaves, with arrival and departure times. The citation concerns that record.
Worth asking: Can I see this week's attendance record?
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