The Forsyth County Division of Environmental Health Section supports many programs for the protection of children’s health. These programs include the inspection of daycares, school buildings, school cafeterias and childhood lead investigations.

Child Care Centers

Child care centers are inspected twice per year. These inspections ensure that proper procedures are followed for everything ranging from diaper changing to food service as well as general sanitation. Child care centers are graded on a demerit system in which a classification of superior, approved, provisional or disapproved.

• To receive a superior, a demerit score of less than 15 must be achieved with no 6 demerit items deducted.
• An approved is received if the demerit score is more than 15 but less than 30.
• A provisional classification is assigned if any 6 demerit item is violated or if the total demerit score is more than 30 but not more than 45.
• If the demerit score is 46 or more or, if the conditions which resulted in a provisional classification have not been corrected in the time period specified by the Environmental Health Specialist, then the establishment will be placed in a disapproved status.