• Violation

  418-1.9(j) · Corporal punishment is prohibited. For the purposes of this Subpart, the term corporal punishment means punishment inflicted directly on the body including, but not limited to, physical restraint, spanking, biting, shaking, slapping, twisting or squeezing; demanding excessive physical exercise, prolonged lack of movement or motion, or strenuous or bizarre postures; and compelling a child to eat or have in the child's mouth soap, foods, hot spices or irritants or the like.

  Corrected Corrected by Apr 1, 2026

  Category: nutrition. Marked corrected in the state record.

• Violation

  418-1.9(m) · Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited.

  Corrected Corrected by Apr 1, 2026

  Category: supervision. Marked corrected in the state record.

• Violation

  418-1.10(c) · In accordance with the provisions of Sections 413 and 415 of the Social Services Law, child care center staff must immediately report any suspected incidents of child abuse or maltreatment concerning a child receiving child care to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment, or cause such a report to be made, when such staff have reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming before them in their capacity as child care center workers is an abused or maltreated child. This must be done in the following manner:

Disposition: Complaint (Investigation Pending)

Disposition: Complaint (Substantiated)