3.3.7.3 · Within six (6) months of initial date of employment, the FCCP and all staff shall maintain an up-to-date BFIS Quality and Credential Account. Documentation, verification of qualifications, and all annual professional development activities as specified in the rules sections 7.3 and 7.4 of these regulations shall be submitted to NLCDC to be verified and maintained in BFIS.

After a review of BFIS Quality and Credential accounts, it was determined that staff A, B and C employed longer than six (6) months did not have up to date BFIS Quality and Credential Accounts as required and was missing qualification and/or certification information.

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7.6.2 · The FCCP shall ensure all substitutes comply with legal mandates regarding child abuse and neglect in the rules in section 3.2 of these regulations.

A substitute employed longer than 6 months did not complete a training on Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect.

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2.5.2.5 · Providing false information, incomplete information or misrepresentation of facts in obtaining a license, renewing a license or in the operation of the FCCH;

When your program was called on July 21, you reported on several occasions that your attendance was accurate and reflected when children was in care. When you were made aware that we had written documentation and that at least two parents reported their children were not in care on days you included them on your attendance( you indicated one child in care for 8 days and the other was for 5 days) , you stated that you had put children as attending when they were not present and logging false hours on your calendar keeper and submitted for payment from the Child Development Division financial assistance unit for payment.

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2.3.1.5 · The FCCP shall not interfere with, impede, deter, provide false information or cause another to do any of the aforementioned, or in any manner hinder the Department or its agent(s) in an investigation or inspection.

When the Child Development Division called your program on July 21, you stated that the attendance for November and December was accurate and that you had not requested at least two (2) families to report that their children were at the childcare once or twice a week, when they were not. Once we informed you that we had written documentation that you had asked parents' permission to enter false hours to keep us from asking if child care is warranted, and asking another to provide false information if we ask about the hours, you acknowledged that you had falsify your attendance and requested permission from parents to enter false hours and for them to provide false information if we ask.

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6.2.2.4 · The licensed FCCP shall ensure that the number of staff present meets requirements described in the chart below for ages of children, maximum group size, and staff/child ratios at any time of day.

Provider and staff stated that one staff had been left alone with four (4) children under the age of two (2).

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3.3.6.5 · Staffing Schedule: A licensed FCCP shall maintain a written record of the daily schedule for at least 365 days of all staff including the exact days and hours worked.

Staff schedule records were missing for the month of November and the first week in December. The provider acknowledged that she had not included herself on the schedule and was missing information for the other staff.

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7.2.1 · The FCCP shall ensure that all new staff, and any new individual with unsupervised access to children in the FCCH submits a Records Check Authorization form to the Division and shall submit to fingerprinting at a location designated by the Division after having received the Fingerprinting Authorization Certificate by the Division.

A substitute, left alone in the program in charge of 5 children, was not on the associated party list and no record check authorization form had been submitted to the Division.

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