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Inspection · 2023-06-05

Date
2023-06-05
Complaint Related
No
Licensing Inspector
Margaret Allworth
(703) 209-3521
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

8VAC20-780 Administration.
8VAC20-780 Staff Qualifications and Training.
8VAC20-780 Physical Plant.
8VAC20-780 Staffing and Supervision.
8VAC20-780 Programs.
8VAC20-780 Special Care Provisions and Emergencies
8VAC20-780 Special Services.
22.1 Background Checks Code, Carbon Monoxide
63.2 Child Abuse & Neglect

Inspector Notes

A renewal inspection was initiated on 6/5/2023 and concluded on 6/5/2023. There were 67 children directly supervised by 11 staff members. Children were observed during engaged in group activities, science, color project, rain coloring project and manipulatives. The physical plant, 3 child records, 6 staff records, medications, evacuation drills, and playground were inspected. Information gathered during the inspection determined non-compliance with applicable standards or law and violations were documented on the violation notice issued to the program. Please contact me if you have any questions at Margaret.allworth@doe.virginia.gov or 703-209-3521.

Violations

4
Standard 8VAC20-780-240-C
Based on a revie of staff records, staff have not completed all the requirements of orientation training prior to working alone with children and no later then 7 days of the day of assuming job responsibility.
Evidence: Staff # 1, date of employment 4/20/2023 and staff # 2, date of employment 5/16/2023 have not taken the training in recognizing child abuse and neglect. Both staff were observed caring for children.
Plan of Correction: Staff will take the required training and file the certificate in the staff's record.
All staff will take training within 7 days of employment.
Standard 8VAC20-780-350-B-2
Based on observation and children record review, staff to child ratio is not maintained in every classroom.
Evidence: The toddler classroom, ages 16 months- 24 months requires a 1 staff to 5 children. The classroom was observed with 2 staff and 10 children. One child, (child #1) was younger than 16 months, needing a ratio of 1 staff to every 4 children. The child is 12 months, the staff to child ratio was not being met for the youngest child in the classroom
Plan of Correction: All classrooms will maintain required ratios. Management will implement a plan when staff call out of work to always maintain ratios.
Standard 8VAC20-780-440-B
Based on observation, cribs were not identified for use for each specific child.
Evidence: There were 3 infants observed sleeping in cribs. These 2 cribs were not labeled with each of the child's name.
Plan of Correction: All cribs will be labeled today.
Standard 8VAC20-780-70
Based on a review of staff records, staff records did not contain two references before employment.
Evidence: Staff #1, date of employment 4/20/2023 and staff # 3, date of employment 3/13/2023 does not have documentation of 2 or more references on file. Both staff were observed caring for children.
Plan of Correction: References will be obtained and placed in the staff's record.
View original record on Virginia Department of Social Services