KDV Berend Botje Volendam Don Bosco

Strengths

• Pedagogical policy and practice are in order
• Staff members hold the correct qualifications and Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG)
• Staff-to-child ratios are correct in all groups
• Each child has a fixed mentor

Shortcomings

• Prevent children from being moved from their regular group to solve staffing problems

Violations

• Children were moved to other regular groups, as a result of which the stability of care was not guaranteed

Summary

KDV Berend Botje Volendam Don Bosco is a daycare center (kinderdagverblijf/KDV) with 44 places for children aged 0–4, located at Heideweg 2a in Volendam. The inspection took place on 2 June 2025. The daycare center generally meets the quality requirements: the pedagogical policy and pedagogical practice are good, the staff is well trained, and the staff-to-child ratios are in order. However, there is one violation: children were occasionally moved to another regular group in order to meet occupancy requirements, meaning the stability of care was not always guaranteed. The location did always ask parents for permission. The Municipal Health Service (GGD) advises the municipality to enforce, but takes mitigating circumstances into account. No separate recovery offer was made; the location acknowledges the problem and states that it will only move children in exceptional cases.