Incident investigation·December 6, 2023

On December 6 th at 10:20am Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Andrew met with Director Jacqueline to conduct an unannounced case management inspection. The purpose of the case management was to follow up on a self-reported unusual incident report (UIR) submitted to the Department on November 30th, 2023. The unusual incident report was regarding a supervision incident involving Child #1. Upon arrival, there were 0 school age children and 0 staff for the school age license present at the facility. The incident report indicated that Staff #1 was lining up the children outside to return to the classroom. Staff #1 did do rollcall (name to face) and thought Child #1 went home, and marked the child absent on the rollcall sheet. Staff #1 proceeded to leave the outside playground area with the children accounted for and guide them back to the classroom. About a minute later Child #1 runs from the outside playground area back to the kindergarten classroom. Child #1 was left unsupervised outside for 1 minute. LPA reviewed staff and children files including the facility video surveillance camera. Furthermore, LPA also completed a safety inspection of the Center at approximately 10:40 am. At the time of the visit there are no school age children, as well as no staff members that were involved in the incident. Further investigation will be required in order to resolve the unusual incident report. An exit interview was conducted and a copy of this report and appeal rights were discussed with the Director Jacqueline.