Great Expectations Child Care Center, Inc.
A day care center in Buffalo, New York 14224
4534 Clinton Street, Buffalo, New York 14224. (716) 771-1962.
What New York’s list coversOutside New York City
Programs New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services licenses or registers outside New York City, each county added once it is read in full. Programs in the city’s five boroughs, including the day care centers its Health Department regulates, aren’t here yet.
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The short answer
Record last released by New York State Office of Children and Family Services on Nov 5, 2026.
- 3 violations in the last three years
- Oct 142026 the latest visit on record
- 172 children, its licensed capacity
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean4
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
- Licence status
- Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
- Capacity
- The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
21 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Oct 14, 2026.
3 violations cited in the last three years.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
3 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
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| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
Hover or focus a month to read it.
Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
Each violation, in its source’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
Nov 21, 2025: complaint investigation1 violation
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Pending notification of completion of all required background check components in subdivision (a) of this section, a prospective director, employee or volunteer must always be supervised by an individual who received a qualifying result on the background checks described in paragraph (a) of this section within the past five years. A provisional director, employee or volunteer shall not have unsupervised contact with children in care.
Oct 29, 2025: complaint investigation1 violation
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The supervision ratios are as follows:
Oct 10, 2025: complaint investigation1 violation
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The written medical statement from the health care provider must also state whether the child is a child with special health care needs and, if so, what special provisions, if any, will be necessary in order for the child to participate in child day care. When the written statement from the health care provider advises the day care program that the child being enrolled is a child with special health care needs, the day care program must work together with the parent and the child’s health care provider to develop a reasonable health care plan for the child while the child is in the child day care program. The health care plan for the child must also address how the day care program will obtain or develop any additional competencies that the staff will need to have in order to carry out the health care plan for the child.
All 24 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Aug 26, 2026 | Fire Safety - TA | No violations found |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Dec 4, 2025 | Documentation Review | No violations found |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Complaint | Complaint (Substantiated); 1 violation cited |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Complaint | Complaint (Substantiated); 1 violation cited |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Complaint | Complaint (Unsubstantiated); 1 violation cited |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jan 23, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Oct 7, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Aug 19, 2024 | Fire Safety - Other | No violations found |
| Jul 17, 2024 | Serious Injury | No violations found |
| May 16, 2024 | Serious Injury | No violations found |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Expansion | No violations found |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Application - Renewal | No violations found |
| Nov 10, 2023 | Fire Safety - Renewal | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Dec 18, 2009.
- School district: West Seneca.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 16 Infants, 29 Toddlers, 127 Preschoolers.
- Approved by New York to give medication.
- Licence 400804, issued Dec 18, 2023, expires Dec 17, 2027.
- Capacity: 172 children.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
Has New York acted against it?
- 3 complaints in the last three years. New York’s status for each: Complaint (Substantiated) (2), Complaint (Unsubstantiated) (1).
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
| Date | What | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2025 | Complaint (Substantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated). |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Complaint (Substantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated). |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Complaint (Unsubstantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Unsubstantiated). |
Who does the caring?
- New York doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual programs.
Who owns it?
- New York’s open data doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- Doesn’t take part in QUALITYstarsNY, New York’s quality rating program.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 467 child care providers in Erie County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 3.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Child’s Creative Development Center, Inc. | 4 |
| Care-A-Lot Childcare Centre, Inc. | 11 |
| Vivian’s Little Darlings Child Care Center, Inc. | 2 |
| Great Expectations Child Care Center, Inc. This child care provider | 3 |
| BRIGHTPATH | 1 |
| Children First Early Childhood Education/Childcare | 2 |
| Just Kids Early Child Care Center, Inc. | 2 |
| Candy Land Day Care of WNY, LLC | 7 |
| Stearns, Lori | 0 |
| YMCA Buffalo Niagara | 0 |
| YMCA Buffalo Niagara | 0 |
| YMCA Buffalo Niagara | Not given |
What the record doesn’t say
- New York doesn’t grade violations by severity, so read what was cited.
- New York’s records give the regulation behind each violation, not what the inspector saw.
- New York’s program pages cover four calendar years; this page shows the last three years.
- New York doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual programs.
Sources
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New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs (cb42-qumz).
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history.
Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.
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