SACC at Lorton Community Center

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 policies and procedures for identifying where attending children are at all times, playground supervision, and for the departure of children state the following: -That each staff will ensure the care, protection, guidance and sight and sound supervision of all children at all times, by accounting for the children in their care on their attendance accountability checklist before transitioning to another location; -Each staff will also record departure information, name-to-face will be conducted periodically to visually verify each child is present; -Visually verify that all children have left the area before moving to the next location, all programs areas and outdoor spaces will be checked; -Children must be signed out by an authorized person at the time of departure and a visual check of the child completed; -Staff will report any attendance discrepancies to the supervisor immediately, and staff assigned to the main pick-up location (in the building) will be responsible for the master center attendance accountability checklist. On 3/30/26, each staff did not account for children and their departure on their own attendance accountability checklist. A child was marked as departed for the day without a visual check of the child departing with an authorized person. Periodic name-to-face checks were not completed. A visual check of the playground area was not completed before leaving to go inside the center, resulting in Child #1, a 5-year-old, being left alone unsupervised on the playground. Though attendance discrepancies were noticed by staff while on the playground, they did not report them to the supervisor. The master center attendance accountability checklist (in the building) was not used to track when children departed for the day.

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8VAC20-780-40-M · The center shall maintain, in a way that is accessible to all staff who work with children, a current written list of all children's allergies, sensitivities, and dietary restrictions documented in the allergy plan required in 8VAC20-780-60 A 8. This list shall be dated and kept confidential in each room or area where children are present.

All center staff were not aware of where the allergy list was kept and the list on-file did not include information about Child #9 and Child #10 who have been diagnosed with food allergies.

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8VAC20-780-40-E · The operational responsibilities of the licensee shall include ensuring that the center's services are maintained in compliance with these standards and the center's own policies and procedures that are required by these standards.

No staff ensured compliance with licensing standards and SACC mandated reporting policies/procedures when delaying a report of suspected abuse to child protective services ( CPS

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8VAC20-780-70 · Staff records shall be kept on-site for each staff person and include the employee's name, address and phone as well as the name, address and phone number for an emergency contact person.

There was no documentation of this information for Staff #5 and Staff #6 on-file.

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8VAC20-780-140-A · Repeat violation.

Each child shall have a physical exam completed by a physician within 30-days after the first day of attendance. 1 of 3 children's records did not include a physical exam. The record for Child #1 did not include a physical exam. The child attended the program last school-year.

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8VAC20-780-130-A · Repeat violation and systemic deficiency.

Based on records reviewed, 1 of 4 children's records did not include documentation of immunizations prior to the child attending. Evidence: The record for Child #4 did not include a immunizations.

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22.1-289.035-A · Based on record review, the organization did not ensure that all employees undergo a background check every five years from the date of the initial check.

Evidence: Staff #4 criminal record check was originally conducted June 13 2018 and a repeat check was not documented to have a occurred.

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8VAC20-780-130-A · Based on record review, 1 of 2 child records reviewed did not have documentation that the children received the immunizations required by the State Board of Health before the child can attend the center.

Evidence: Child #1 does not have an immunization record on file with the center.

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