Barnett, Gwendolyn
Home Daycare · Pending renewal application · Licensed since 2000
GoldiCheck · State record
Protective Plan issued on 2023-10-26 (40615B1: DISCIPLINE — prohibited discipline in family day care home) — DCFS assessed an active child safety risk
Category check
1 safety area flagged serious — see red below.
Safety
can be flagged seriousKey findings
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DISCIPLINE — prohibited physical or harmful discipline used in family day care home
Staff member working WITHOUT a completed background check (Child Care Act §7(a))
Illinois law (Child Care Act §7(a)) requires daycare employees to pass a criminal history check before working with children. This citation is recorded when that screening is incomplete or not documented for someone in the facility's personnel records. DCFS typically pairs it with a corrective plan requiring the screening be completed.
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
DISCIPLINE — prohibited discipline in family day care home
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
All violations
27 violations shown (105 outside lookback window)
Background checks(1)
Staff member working WITHOUT a completed background check (Child Care Act §7(a))
Illinois law (Child Care Act §7(a)) requires daycare employees to pass a criminal history check before working with children. This citation is recorded when that screening is incomplete or not documented for someone in the facility's personnel records. DCFS typically pairs it with a corrective plan requiring the screening be completed.
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Discipline(2)
DISCIPLINE — prohibited physical or harmful discipline used in family day care home
DISCIPLINE — prohibited discipline in family day care home
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Health & sanitation(5)
Family home — nutrition or meal service requirement not met
Family home — children under 30 months requirement not met
Family home — records & reports requirement not met (§406.24)
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — health & safety requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — health & safety requirement not met
Staff training(7)
Family home — annual 15-clock-hour in-service training requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — assistant qualification requirement not met
Family home — primary caregiver not certified in CPR, Heimlich maneuver, and infant/child CPR
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — provider qualification requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — provider qualification requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — provider qualification requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — provider qualification requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Operations(12)
Family home — license provision requirement not met (§406.6)
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — general licensing requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — general licensing requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — general licensing requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — general licensing requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — activity requirements not met
Family home — children with special needs requirement not met
Family home — school-age program requirement not met
Family home — licensing requirement not met
Family home — licensing requirement not met
Family home — general licensing requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
Family home — general licensing requirement not met
DCFS has not recorded a verified correction. The facility may have fixed this independently — ask for the inspector sign-off.
How we rate this daycareIllinois DCFS records›
DCFS doesn't grade violations, so we classify each citation by the rule it cites: rules tied to immediate child safety (supervision, background checks, discipline, and the higher-risk building and health rules) are red; administrative rules (ratios, training, paperwork) are yellow. Classification is per citation, so two findings in the same category can differ.
🔴 Serious concerns — any of:
- A child-safety (red) violation is still unresolved — past its correction deadline, or cited again as a repeat
- DCFS issued a Protective Plan — a formal finding of an active risk to a child
- 2 or more violations are past their correction deadline
🟡 Watch carefully — any of:
- A child-safety (red) violation was corrected or is being corrected
- 3 or more administrative (yellow) violations
- 1 violation is past its correction deadline
- An active corrective plan — DCFS formally required a fix
🟢 Clean
Actively licensed, with no violations (or only minor, corrected ones) in your lookback window.
Data sourced from Illinois DCFS (DCFS Sunshine). Last updated: Aug 7, 2026. GoldiCheck is not affiliated with DCFS. Always verify with the DCFS Sunshine record (search Provider #281984).
This is a home-based program. The operator's name and address are published by DCFS as part of the licensing record, under state transparency law; we republish only what that record makes public.