• Type B

  101223(a)(2) · Personal Rights: The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights: To be accorded safe, healthful and comfortable accommodations, furnishings and equipment to meet his/her needs.

  Per Assistant Director, Director sent an email to parents on 11/12/21 informing them on the CA. DPH face covering guidance, and will provide extra masks to children without one. Per Assistant Director, each child received a lanyard that clips to the face mask that stays on the child to prevent losing mask. Based on LPAs observations and interviews conducted, facility did not require children over 2 years old to wear face coverings while inside the facility, as required by the CA Dept. of Public Health Guidance on the use of face coverings on children, and individual mask exemptions did not apply. This poses a potential health and safety and personal rights risk to the children in care. Per Assistant Director, will provide staff a copy of the current CA Dept. of Health guidance on use of face coverings, and obtain a summary of the guidance, including examples of ways to encourage mask-wearing of children, by all staff. Assistant Director will provide copy of Agenda notes and staff signatures by the due date of 2/9/22.

Disposition: Substantiated