Incident investigation·October 10, 2024

On 10/10/24, Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Veronica Diaz conducted a Case Management-Incident inspection at the Child Care Center (CCC), for the purpose of following up on the report of an Unusual Incident Report (UIR) received by the Department on 10/07/24. Specifically, the incident involved a child in care, C1, was left unattended in the classroom. LPA met with Director Amanda Holloway and Co-owner Sara Weththasinga discuss the purpose of today's inspection. LPA notes 78 children and 12 staff were present during inspection. Director and co-owner informed Licensing, C1 was left behind in the classroom. There was 2 staff with 16 children. Both staff stated they counted name to face before going out to the play yard and again in the play yard. Staff 1 realized at some point C1 was missing from the play yard after about 25 minutes and returned to the classroom to find C1 still in the classroom. Staff 1 stated that C1 did not seem to be in distress and was sitting on the cot waiting for the teacher. Director notified parent. Director stated that parent seem upset. C1 was has not been back to the CCC since the incident happened. Currently the C1 is still enrolled. LPA and Director and co-owner discussed active supervision. Director and co-owner reported CCC has conducted investigation and made proper updates to ensure this incident does not occur again. The circumstances were investigated by the administrator to determine what factors contributed to the incident and steps to prevent it from happening again are in place. The expectations regarding safety and supervision are and will continue to be strongly communicated to our staff through training and meetings. Both staff have been terminated after in house investigation due to having prior training recently on supervision and classroom management. LPA investigated this incident and based interview with Director and co-owner, record reviews and LPA personal observation there is sufficient evidence in lack of supervision to support that resulted in C1 being left in the classroom. Therefore, the following deficiencies will be sited today 101229 (a) (1) CONT 809-C During today’s inspection 1 deficiency citation was provided regarding active care and supervision and repeated civil penalty of $250 Exit interview and review of report was conducted with Director Amanda Holloway and co-owner Notice of Site visit was provided and must remain posted for the next 30 days.