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Safe products and child care: An Illinois snapshot [Executive summary]

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Kids In Danger (KID) recently surveyed child care workers throughout Illinois to assess behavior and attitudes towards children's product safety. Findings of the report include: (1) Forty-nine percent of the respondents reported at least one recalled or prohibited product in their child care facility. (2) Safe sleep practices were also examined. In total 37% indicated seeing unsafe sleep practices in their facilities. (3) Sixty-eight percent of respondents reported using secondhand products in their facility. They were 180% more likely to report the use of a recalled or otherwise prohibited product than respondents that worked in a facility that did not use secondhand products. (4) Home-based facilities are half as likely as their center counterparts to have unsafe sleep conditions. (5) Only 33% of respondents reported that DCFS inspectors checked if their facility kept its dated recall product notice within the last two years. (6) Almost all child care providers agreed that child product safety should be a priority at child care facilities (10% agree, 81% strongly agree). (author abstract)
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