Operation of a Family Child Care Home 102417(a)The licensee shall be present in the home and shall ensure...Temporary absences shall not exceed 20 percent of the hours that the facility is providing care per day.

Licensee Perez agrees to submit a Declaration form LIC855 with a written plan to LPA when leaving out of the state for a doctor's appointment. In the plan Licensee Perez will establish whether she will be closing during those hours not present in the state or if she will be changing the hours of operation via email to LPA by POC due date. Based on observation and interviews, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above, Licensee is out of the state for a doctor's appoinment, left around 6:55am and then licensee stated would be coming back around 4:00pm or 5:00pm, which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

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Operation of a Family Child Care Home 102417(g)(4) The home shall be free from defects or conditions which might endanger a child... Poisons, detergents, cleaning compounds, medicines...shall be stored where they are inaccessible to children.

LPA observed Assistant M. Guerrero removed all toiletries from the children’s designated bathroom before LPA left the home. Assistant Guerrero agrees to maintained all toiletries inaccessible to the children in care and will further discussed with Licensee Perez. Based on observation, there were three (3) toiletries bottles on the bathtub in the children’s designated bathroom (No. 1), two of which had the lid opened and the third one was a pump, which poses/posed a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. SUPERVISOR'S NAME: Claudia Escobedo

Personal Rights (a)Each child receiving services from a family childcare home shall have certain rights… (4)To be free from corporal or unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation… *Licensee agreed to watch the following videos with staff members 1)Family Child Care Providers – California Child Care Licensing – Resources for Parents and Providers (childcarevideos.org) 2)Another video link to be determined and

the licensee used inappropriate discipline of a day care child by using a cloth like material to inflict upon a child which inherently shows the child being intimidated. The licensee failed to ensure that children in daycare are treated with dignity in their personal relationship with staff members of the facility. This poses an immediate health and safety risk to children in care forwarded by management *Licensee agrees to answer the questions below after viewing the video and submit to LPA, via email, by 05/24/2024, end of business day: 1.What are children’s personal rights in childcare? 2.What if a parent or family member requests actions that conflict with children’s rights? 3.How can I learn more about protecting children’s rights in childcare?

102423(a)(4) · Correction status not published