The FCCP shall establish a system for taking attendance, including documentation of the time when each child arrives and departs each day he/she attends the FCCH. The FCCP shall save all daily attendance records identifying the hours of children s attendance for at least twelve (12) months from the date that care is provided.
Upon arrival at the program, there were 14 children in care and 12 children were signed in on the attendance sheet. This is a repeat violation. Additionally, the attendance record reflects first names or nicknames for children and no last names. There were at least two children in care with the same first name.
3.3.3 · Not corrected
The FCCP shall ensure that each floor of the home, and in the corridor to access the home in an apartment building, has an operating smoke detector as well as a smoke detectors in the immediate vicinity where children sleep. The FCCP shall ensure carbon monoxide monitors are located outside of rooms were children sleep.
During the visit, there was not a properly mounted CO2 detector in operating condition at the program. The provider presented a new smoke and CO2 combination detector that was still in the box but intended for use in the program. The device was not installed for proper operation.
5.10.1.2.4 · Not corrected
In Option two (2): Summer Vacation, described in the chart below, the registered FCCP shall use this chart when providing care to their original six (6) children and up to an additional six (6) school age children and/or when providing care to any school age children over the original six (6) children that began care after May 1st of the current year.
Upon arrival at the program there were 14 children in care, including 9 children under school age, and 5 children of school age. A review of attendance records reflected that the program operated over ratio on 11 additional days between 06/13-08/02/2022. On 06/15, 06/21, 06/23, 06/24, and 06/28/22, there were 11 children, including 7 children under school age signed into care. On 06/14/22, there were 12 children, including 7 children under school age, signed into care. On 06/16 and 07/19/22, there were 11 children, including 8 under school age, signed into care. On 06/29/22, there were 10 children, including 7 under school age, signed into care. On 07/20 and 07/21/22, there were 12 children, including 9 children under school age, signed into care. The maximum allowable number of children present at one time for a Registered Family Child Care Home with one qualified and approved staff member, is ten, including no more than 6 children under school age. This is a repeat serious violation.