Creative Play Learning Center
A day care center in Getzville, New York 14068
647 Dodge Road, Getzville, New York 14068. (716) 689-9800.
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.
- 7 violations in the last three years
- Jul 202026 the latest visit on record
- 72 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?
14 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Jul 20, 2026.
7 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
7 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2025. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
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| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 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.
Jul 15, 2025: fire Safety - Alternate Year1 violation
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The program must maintain on file at the child day care center, available for inspection by the Office or its designees at any time, the following records in a current and accurate manner: documentation from the local government authority having jurisdiction for determining compliance with the Fire and Building Code of New York State showing that the facility has been inspected and approved once every 12 months during the current license period for compliance with the applicable fire safety provisions of the Fire and Building Code of New York State;
Jun 27, 2025: self Reported Serious Incident5 violations
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The staff and volunteers must be in good health and be of good character and habits.
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The program must take suitable precautions to prevent the following: serious injury of a child while in care at the program or being transported by the program; and
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Staff and volunteers must take suitable precautions to prevent children from receiving burns caused by contact with hot liquids.
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Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher’s range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child’s age emotional, physical, and cognitive development.
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Except for Office approved continuity of care classrooms, infants may never be mixed with other age groups.
Jan 7, 2025: mid-Point1 violation
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Training must address all topics or subject matters required by state and federal law. The required state topics are:
All 14 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| May 12, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Aug 7, 2025 | Monitoring - Enforcement | No violations found |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | 1 violation cited |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Self Reported Serious Incident | 5 violations cited |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Mid-Point | 1 violation cited |
| Nov 8, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Sep 4, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Fire Safety - Other | No violations found |
| May 14, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Nov 23, 2012.
- School district: Williamsville.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 16 Infants, 28 Toddlers, 28 Preschoolers.
- Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
- Licence 628564, issued Nov 23, 2022, expires Nov 22, 2026.
- Capacity: 72 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?
- No complaints 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.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
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?
- Takes 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 7.
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 |
|---|---|
| Discovery Kids Learning Center, Inc. | 23 |
| Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, Inc. | 1 |
| Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, Inc. | 9 |
| BRIGHTPATH | 3 |
| Creative Play Learning Center This child care provider | 7 |
| Rainbow Bridge Culture Center, Incorporated | 12 |
| Peninsula Montessori LLC | 2 |
| Brierwood Child Care of Lancaster, Inc. | 5 |
| Little O’s Cuddley Family Day Care | 0 |
| Bluff, Lori | 0 |
| Stepping Stones Family Day Care | 0 |
| Harris, Tonya | 4 |
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.
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: New York State Office of Children and Family Services. New York’s own record is on hs.ocfs.ny.gov. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.
This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.
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