Beyond Blindness

The director stated they will update health and safety manual to refer any classroom injuries non-minor to the manager of ECE. The director will wrtie a written statement and will send it to the LPA by the

101223(a)(2) Personal Rights (a) The licensee shall ... personal rights: (2) To be accorded safe, healthful, and comfortable accommodations, furnishings, and equipment to meet his/her needs. This requirement was not met evidence by: 1 The facility representative stated they will document everything we are doing. We updated the training health and safety manual and implement training to staff to identify bitting before it happens. We will continue to do social/emotional training. We will continue to have therapist sessions to families. We will continue to remove children that are bitting from the situation and give them space. We will continue to give parents strategies to encourage their child not to bite. Based on interviews conducted by LPA and incident reports, it was determined that the staff are not preventing children from biting other children. This poses an immediate risk to the health/safety of the children. 8 Request Denied

101416.5 Staff-Infant Ratio (b)There shall be a ratio of one teacher for every four infants in attendance. This requirement was not met by: 1 The facility representative stated they will review staff and children's number daily. Including coverage for restroom breaks and throughout the day as children go home. . Based on interviews conducted by LPA, it was determined that the facility is operating out of ratio. This poses an immediate risk to the health/safety of the children. 8

101416.2 Infant Care Teacher Qualifications and Duties (b) Prior to employment, an infant care teacher shall have completed... three... units related to the care of infants... This requirement was not met evidenced by: 1 The facility representative stated they will enroll in an infant/toddler classroom and send the proof to the LPA via email. Based on LPAs interviews and record review, staff that are in the apple classroom do not have units in infant/toddler courses. This poses a potential risk to the health/safety of the children. 8

Based on observation, interview, record review, At 12:00pm, during staff file review Infant teacher qualification was reviewed and 2 infant teachers were missing an infant course, staff files were not in compliance. the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

Child's finger got smashed on the door due to lack of supervision

Staff does not prevent daycare children from biting other daycare children.

Unqualified staff attending to daycare children.

Classroom operating out of ratio.