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I have a few questions about the background checks which are done during a homestudy. First let me give a little background. Around about 4 years ago, while I still owned my daycare, a disgruntled employee and her friend who had a child in my daycare falsely accused me of putting some bruises on the child. I was questioned as were my other employees, and no charges were filed. I was devistated, I had taught for 10 years and had the daycare for 2 years and this was the first and only time this had happened. As I said no charges were filed, nor was any action taken by the Daycare Licensing agency. Now I have two questions. Is this going to even show up when they do the background checks? And Should I tell the Social worker who is going to be doing the background checks in case something does show up? I have really been worried about this effecting our ability to adopt so any advice would be greatly appriciated
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IMO unless the charges were substantiated....there will be nothing anywhere about it......If you really feel it needs to be mentioned then I would, otherwise leave it alone. You know you did nothing wrong, so therefore it is a dead issue as far as I'm concerned. An interesting story.....a couple who were in our classes told how when the CORI check was run on the husband, a charge of lewd and lasivious came up from several years back. They were totally embarrased and confused about it.....but, it seems as though when the husband was in college a group of the guys went out drinking and they happened to "moon" someone. That is where the charge came from...lol.....anyways it turned out to be no problem for them!
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Scarlet,
The rule of thumb is to always be open and honest with your homestudy worker. If the incident comes up in a background check, it would be a lot easier to deal with it if she knew beforehand, rather than trying to explain to her why you werent forthcoming with her in the first place.
Scarlet,
Yes, this will likely show up on the abuse screening portion of the background check. For better or worse, allegations stay on the record. This is a negative for people who are falsely accused, but helps develop a pattern for bonafide offenders who manage to evade prosecution for a given offense.
THE GOOD NEWS is that this should not cause you to be denied approval for the background check. As you said, it is a single incident and was unsubstatiated.
As previously mentioned, do be honest with the social worker. If you are caught being deceptive it could derail the entire home study.
I can't make any promises, but I wouldn't worry about this jeopardizing your chances for approval.
I just want to say, yes it will probably show up.
My social worker kept asking me if anything would show up, she asked me a couple of times. She said, well sometimes people forget that they were arrested or investigated or something and it was better to know up front.
So, it's best to bring it up yourself, than to have them bring it up to you and have them think that you were trying to hide it.