A daycare abuse law firm will be able to help you file a lawsuit in the event that your child is the victim of daycare neglect or negligence. Neglect means taking actions or not taking actions that could have been expected of any reasonable person and causing someone to come to harm. It may be a case where the facility failed to provide the type of security and supervision that would have stopped one sort of abuse or another or a case where a facility failed to deliver on the services they promised.
Neglect
Daycare neglect is a big problem. For larger facilities, the temptation to take on more children than they can accommodate is always there to keep profit margins up. This happens when the daycare facility starts thinking in terms of how many children they can fit at their facility as opposed to thinking of how many children they can really take care of in the most professional and compassionate way.
In cases where a child is neglected at a daycare, the outcomes are very much like cases where a child is neglected at home. There may be unsupervised play that results in injuries, missed medical needs, poor hygiene and other problems that end up becoming significant issues for the child. This can put the child in very real danger.
Negligence
The worst type of negligence imaginable—and that happens all too frequently—is when a child is abused by a staff member and the daycare facility fails to step in to provide any assistance to stop it. These situations can get out of control very quickly and may end up in the child suffering grievously as a result. To make sure that your facility is up to par, ask them about their policies for checking backgrounds and for licensing and insurance. This ensures that you’re always getting the best possible quality of service.
Daycare facilities owe your child a safe experience. They also owe you the assurance that they’re always watching out for your child and making sure that they won’t come to harm when they’re at the daycare facility. When they fail to deliver, they may be liable. The daycare abuse lawyers will work with you to try to determine how the facility was negligent and to arrive at a sum that would cover your pain and suffering and your financial damages that you suffered as a result.