Study faults some day-care centers

The Boston Globe
Sean P. Murphy
October 12, 2011

The Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) helped conduct a survey for the Children’s Investment Fund on the structural problems found in day-care centers of low-income communities in Massachusetts. Researchers found that one-third of the child-care centers contain unsafe play equipment, half lack space for active indoor play, and a fifth suffer from poor ventilation. The day-care centers were randomly selected from state-licensed day-care and early childhood education centers that accommodate 10 to 100 children. The survey does not include thousands of smaller family child-care operations.

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