PHYSICAL FACILITY, EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHINGS: 11010 - CCLR s.13(1) - A licensee must ensure that a healthy and safe environment is provided at all times while children are under the supervision of employees.
Observation: Licensing observed the following:
- an uncovered electrical outlet in the naproom (corrected during the inspection)
- an unsecured blind cord in the naproom (corrected during the inspection)
- a charging cord on the floor in the naproom, along with an unsecured electrical cord (corrected during the inspection)
- the door to the furnace room is unlatched (corrected during the inspection)
- gate at the bottom of the stairs inside the facility is not in place (corrected during the inspection)
- broken bamboo lattice in the children's outdoor space located in the cedar hedge; which could pose a hazard as the broken bamboo is potentially at children's height and the size of the gaps may pose a potential risk of entrapment
Although children sleep in play pens in the nap room, there is potential that an older child could climb out of a play pen and access the above noted hazards, identified in the nap room.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure that a healthy and safe environment is provided at all times.
Date to be Corrected: September 13, 2022
PHYSICAL FACILITY, EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHINGS: 11020 - CCLR s.13(2) - A licensee must ensure that the community care facility and the furniture, equipment and fixtures within it are clean and in good repair while children are in attendance.
Observation: Licensing observed areas of damage on walls where the drywall is exposed. This does not allow for the area to be cleaned.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure that the community care facility is clean and in good repair.
Date to be Corrected: October 10, 2022
STAFFING: 12040 - CCLR s.19(1)(a) - A licensee must not employ a person in a community care facility unless the licensee or, in the case of a person who is not the manager, the manager has first met with the person and obtained all of the following: (a) a criminal record check for the person.
Observation: The Licensee has not recieved a criminal record check for a staff.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure to obtain a criminal record check for each staff prior to employment.
Date to be Corrected: September 13, 2022
STAFFING: 12070 - CCLR s.19(1)(d) - A licensee must not employ a person in a community care facility unless the licensee or, in the case of a person who is not the manager, the manager has first met with the person and obtained all of the following: (d) copies of any diplomas, certificates or other evidence of the person's training and skills.
Observation: Copies of any diplomas, certificates or other evidence of a staff's training and skills were not obtained.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure to obtain evidence of staff's training and skills prior to employment.
Date to be Corrected: September 13, 2022
STAFFING: 12140 - CCLR s.19(4)(a) - A licensee must not employ a person in a community care facility as (a) an educator or an assistant unless the person holds a certificate issued under Division 2 [Employee Qualifications], which must be verified by the system maintained by the early childhood educator registry. (Educator or assistant certificate validation)
Observation: An educator does not have certificate validation by the early childhood educator registry.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure to obtain certificate validation by the system maintained by the early childhood registry.
Date to be Corrected: September 13, 2022
CARE AND/OR SUPERVISION: 14030 - CCLR s.34(2)(b) - Without limiting subsection (1), a licensee must ensure that (b) the ratio of employees to children attending a community care facility is no less than that permitted in Schedule E.
Observation (CORRECTED DURING INSPECTION): At the time of Licensing's arrival, an ECE (replacing an IT Educator) and a Responsible Adult (replacing an ECE) were caring for 8 children. A Responsible Adult cannot replace an ECE. This was corrected near the end of the inspection when an IT Educator arrived.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure that the ratio of employees to children is no less than permitted in Schedule E.
Date to be Corrected: corrected during inspection
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