Westminster Child Care Center

8VAC20-780-80-B-2 · The center shall inform the department's representative as soon as practicable, but not to exceed two business days, of any injury to a child that occurs while the child is under the supervision of the center and requires outside medical attention. An injury that took place three weeks ago and resulted in a child going to the emergency room was never reported to department. The center was aware the child went to the emergency room.

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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 these standards, the center's own policies and procedures that are required by these standards, and the terms of the current license issued by the department. The center's discipline policy states the center uses positive discipline and WCCC does not use timeouts or physical punishment.

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8VAC20-780-280-B · Hazardous substances such as cleaning materials, insecticides, and pesticides shall be kept in a locked place using a safe locking method that prevents access by children. In the restroom used by children in the Stars room, hazardous substances such as Lysol Cleaner and Windex were found on a shelf above the toilet.

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22.1-289.011-F · The license and any other documents required by the Superintendent shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the licensed premises. The most recent inspection report was not posted.

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8VAC20-780-40-E · REPEAT VIOLATION The operational responsibilities of the licensee shall include ensuring that the center's activities, services, and facilities are maintained in compliance with these standards, the center's own policies and procedures that are required by these standards, and the terms of the current license issued by the department.

The center's safe sleep practice procedure states to always place babies on their backs to sleep. Staff #1 has been witnessed multiple times by other staff members placing infants on their stomach for nap. The center's discipline policy states WCCC does not use timeouts or physical punishment. On March 14, 2025, Staff #1 used physical punishment when physically putting a toy to a 17-month-old child's face to demonstrate why you do not hit your friends with toys.

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8VAC20-780-40-E · REPEAT VIOLATION The operational responsibilities of the licensee shall include ensuring that the center's activities, services, and facilities are maintained in compliance with these standards, the center's own policies and procedures that are required by these standards, and the terms of the current license issued by the department.

On December 18.2024, two staff did not follow the center's procedures for identifying where attending children are at all times which resulted in a two-year-old child being left alone on the playground for approximately four minutes before a parent intervened.. The playground is located near a major university, surrounded by apartments and regular foot traffic.

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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 these standards, the center's own policies and procedures that are required by these standards, and the terms of the current license issued by the department.

Staff #1 did not follow the center's discipline policy which states: The goal of positive discipline is to help children build their own self-control so that they may share, cooperate, handle their emotions, and feel successful and in control of themselves. This is accomplished by guiding children to identify their emotions and select acceptable alternatives to their misbehavior. Teachers model appropriate ways children can solve their problems and help children practice these various positive techniques. Teachers use intentionally positive language to emphasize appropriate choices for the child, rather than focusing on the negative behavior. On October 31, 2024, Child #1 refused to clean-up, staff#1 jerked/dragged the child by the shoulder.

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22.1-289.035-B-4 · REPEAT VIOLATION The center is required to obtain background checks from any state in which the individual has resided in the preceding five years. The center did not request a search of the child abuse and neglect registry from one state for Staff #5, who has been employed for more than three weeks and was working with children at the time of the inspection.

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22.1-289.035-B-4 · Based on record review and interview, the center failed to request a search of central registry background check within the first 30 days of employment and a search of sex offender registry prior to the first day of employment for any state in which a staff member resided in the preceding five years.

Evidence: The sworn statement for staff 3, first date of employment 3/11/24, documented the staff member lived out of the state of VA within the last five years. There was no documentation of an out-of-state sex offender search or central registry background check completed for the other state listed.

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8VAC20-780-40-M · Based on interview, the center failed to obtain an allergy care plan for a child with documented food allergies.

Evidence: An inspection of the allergy list in each classroom was completed. The administrator was unable to provide an allergy care plan.

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8VAC20-770-40-D-1-a · Based on the review of four officer records, the program failed to ensure that a sworn statement and search of central registry is completed within 30 days of becoming a board member for two officers.

Evidence: 1. Officers #1 and #2 became officers on July 15, 2022. 2. There was not a completed sworn statement in the file for Officer #1. 3. There were no results from a central registry check, nor a completed sworn statement in the file for Officer #2. 4. The administrator confirmed that the background checks were not in the files.

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22.1-289.035-B-4 · Based on review of seven staff files, program failed to ensure that a sex offender registry check and search of the child abuse and neglect registry from any state in which an individual has resided in the preceding five years was completed for two staff.

Evidence: 1. The first day of employment for Staff #2 was 10/10/2022. There were no out of state sex offender check in the file nor out of state child abuse and neglect search results. 2 The first day of employment for Staff #5 was 3/7/2022. There were no out of state child abuse and neglect search results in the file. 3. The administrator checked the files and confirmed these items were not in the file.

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22.1-289.035-B-4 · Based on review of four staff files, program did not ensure that results of out of state background checks were obtained timely.

Evidence: 1. The date of employment for Staff # 1 was 7/26/21. 2. There were no results in file for a sex offender check 3. Results of the child abuse and neglect check were dated 3/2/22. 4. The date of employment for Staff # 2 was 10/4/21. 5. Results of a sex offender check were dated 2/23/22.

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