Chester Child Development and Day Care Center, Inc.

8VAC20-780-160-A · Each staff member and individual from an independent contractor shall submit documentation of a negative tuberculosis screening. The documentation shall have been completed within the last 30 calendar days of the date of employment.

1. The tuberculosis screening for staff #2 was dated 5 days after the date of employment. 2. The tuberculosis screening for staff #5 was dated 7 days after the date of employment.

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22.1-289.035-B-4 · 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 sex offender registry check from one state for staff #1, who has been employed for 8 months and was working with children at the time of the inspection.

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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 the centers own policies and procedures that are required by the standards.

1. The center's policy titled "Playground Headcount Form Policy" states "when you are ready to bring your class back inside the center, children must line up at the playground door and be called by name then checked off the playground sheet. If you then proceed to travel through a classroom and down the hallway you must check the attendance sheet once you are in your classroom to be sure no child has strayed away or been left at the playground door." 2. On June 9th, 2025 child #1, age 3 years, was left alone and unsupervised on the playground for approximately 5 minutes and was discovered sitting on the steps by the classroom door by another staff member when they took their class out. 3. Interviews with staff #1 revealed that when the class was transitioned back into the classroom from the playground, the playground headcount form was not checked. 4. Staff #1 did not realize child #1, age 3 years, was left alone and unsupervised on the playground until approximately 10 minutes after entering the classroom when another staff member brought child #1 back in from the playground.

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8VAC20-780-340-F · Children under 10 years of age shall always be within actual sight and sound supervision of staff.

Review of video footage and interviews revealed that at approximately 4:30 pm on 04/29/2025, child #1, age 3 years, left the playground and ran through the parking lot. Staff #1 and staff #2 were unaware that child #1 left the playground. Several cars were pulling into and out of the parking lot at the time. The center is located on a high traffic road.

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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.

1. The center's Behavior Management Policy states: "At Chester Child Development Center we believe in positive discipline. Our staff, teachers and Directors are trained to never use physical punishment for any reason." 2. Staff #1 directed child #1, age 3, to their seat by grabbing the top of the child's head and turning the child around. Child #1 cried.

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8VAC20-790-600-F · Staff who work directly with children shall annually attend the department's health and safety update course.

Staff #3, employed for 16 months, did not have documentation of completing the department's annual health and safety update course in 2024.

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8VAC20-780-70 · Documentation of at least 2 references to character, reputation, and competency are to be checked prior to employment.

Staff #1, who has been actively working at the center for the past 2 months, did not have any completed reference verifications on file.

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22.1-289.035-A · Based on records review, the center failed to ensure that employees shall undergo a background check prior to employment and every five years thereafter. .

Evidence: The record for staff #3, date of employment 06/15/1988, contained criminal background check results dated 06/21/18. A criminal record check should have been conducted by 06/21/2023.

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8VAC20-780-70 · Based on records review, the center failed to maintain documentation that demonstrates that the individual possesses the education, certification, and experience required by the job position in one out of three records reviewed. Evidence: The record for staff #2, date of hire 6/16/11, did not contain documentation of education required by the job position.

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