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La Petite Academy #7137

Inspection · 2025-09-17

Date
2025-09-17
Complaint Related
No
Licensing Inspector
Arlene Agustin
(804) 629-7519
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 Staffing and Supervision.
8VAC20-780 Programs.
8VAC20-780 Special Care Provisions and Emergencies
8VAC20-820 THE LICENSE.
8VAC20-770 Background Checks (8VAC20-770)
20 Access to minor?s records
22.1 Background Checks Cod
63.2 Child Abuse & Neglect

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 monitoring inspection was initiated on September 17, 2025, and completed on September 26, 2025, in response to a self-report received by the licensing office on September 17, 2025, relating to child supervision and transportation. The inspector reviewed children?s records and three staff records on-site. This inspection included document review, interviews, and observations. Information gathered during the inspection determined non-compliance with applicable standards or law, 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 deficient practice will be or has been corrected. Submit your POC within five (5) business days from today, which will be the close of business on October 14, 2025. A POC submitted after this date will not appear on the public website.
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Violations

3
Standard 8VAC20-780-340-F
Children under 10 years of age shall be within actual sight and sound supervision of staff. On September 16, 2025, a child, age 5 years old, was left alone on the center?s transportation vehicle without staff supervision for approximately 16 minutes. Staff at the center were unaware that the child was left alone on the transportation vehicle after being transported back from school.
Plan of Correction: Center director will conduct a retraining all current staff including management team on LCG's Transportation procedures as well as Face to Name Procedures during the October staff meeting.
Standard 8VAC20-780-40-E
The operational responsibilities of the licensee shall include ensuring that the center's activities, services, and facilities are maintained in compliance with the center's own policies and procedures.
1. Per the center?s supervision policy and procedures, children shall be supervised at all times and a 5 year old child was left alone and unsupervised in the school?s transportation vehicle.
2. Per the center?s transportation procedures, staff were to walk to the rear of the bus, looking for the children in under and around each seat. Staff did not check the rear of the bus which resulted in a child being left unsupervised in the school?s transportation vehicle for approximately 16 minutes.
Plan of Correction: Moving forward management bus checks will be completed by a member of management daily when the bus returns from picking up or dropping off children.
Center director will conduct a retraining all current staff including management team on LCG's Transportation procedures, Face to Name Procedures & Supervision Policy during the October staff meeting.
Standard 8VAC20-780-580-K
Staff shall verify that all children have been removed from the vehicle at the conclusion of any trip. Staff #1, the bus driver, never verified that all children had exited the transportation vehicle. A 5-year-old child was left alone unsupervised in the center?s transportation vehicle without staff supervision.
Plan of Correction: Not available online. Contact Inspector for more information.
View original record on Virginia Department of Social Services