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St. Thomas Aquinas Regional School

Inspection · 2025-05-08

Date
2025-05-08
Complaint Related
No
Licensing Inspector
Sharon Allen
(540) 272-2941
SHSIA monitoring inspection of an approved subsidy vendor to determine compliance with current subsidy requirements regarding the health and safety of children and to promote quality standards for the children in their care.
No

Areas Reviewed

22.1 Religious Exempt; Background Checks Code; Carbon Monoxide
32.1 Report by person other than physician
54.1 Must be MAT Certified.
63.2 Child abuse and neglect
8VAC20-770 Background Checks

During the inspection, the inspector reviewed the areas listed above to include standards found out of compliance during the previous inspection. Unless otherwise noted as a violation within this inspection report, the provider was in compliance with the standards reviewed. If there were any serious injuries or fatalities related to a violation, the details will be included in the description of the violation.

Inspector Notes

An unannounced, on-site code compliance inspection was initiated and completed on 05/08/2025. The on-site inspection began at 3:00 p.m. and ended at 5:00 p.m. The inspector reviewed compliance in the areas listed above. There were 75 children present with 8 staff. The inspector reviewed eight children?s records and four staff records on-site.

This inspection included:
? document review
? tour of the facility
? interviews
? observations

Information gathered during the inspection determined non-compliances with applicable code sections, and violations are documented on the violation notice issued to the program.

Please complete the plan of correction (POC) and date to be corrected sections for each violation cited on the violation notice. Specify how the violation will be or has been corrected. Submit your POC within five business days from today, which will be the close of business on 05/27/2025. A POC submitted after this date will not appear on the public website.

Violations

3
Standard 22.1-289.031-B-6
The program is required to ensure that all staff are able to recognize the signs of child abuse and neglect.

The four staff records reviewed did not have evidence of completing training to recognize the signs of child abuse and neglect.
Plan of Correction: Staff records have been updated to include Virtus training certificates. Untrained Employees (under 18 yrs old-must be 18 yrs old to attend Virtus training session) are to be trained the weeks of 5/19 -5/30/25.
Standard 22.1-289.035-B-3
Central Registry Checks are required to be requested for staff prior to the first day of employment.

The record for staff A, who has been actively working with children since 08/30/2023, did not contain a central registry check.
Plan of Correction: A Central Registry Check was run on 5/8/25 and results were obtained on 5/12/25 clearing staff A.
Standard 22.1-289.049-A
The program shall require information from the person enrolling the child regarding previous child day care and schools attended by the child. The program shall also require the proof of the child's identity and age.

Eight of the children's records reviewed did not have documentation of obtaining information regarding if the children had previously attended any schools or child day care programs. The records for child A and child B who have been attending since August 2024 did not have documentation that proof of identity had been viewed.
Plan of Correction: The parents of the students with the records missing proof of age and identity have been requested to provide a copy of their birth certificate by 5/24/25. Daycare/Previous school attendance information for current year students noted to be in the student school file in the front office included in the student application. Registration forms for the school year 2025-26 have been revised to include a daycare/school history required entry.
View original record on Virginia Department of Social Services