Step By Step Early Learning Childcare Center · South Lake Tahoe

981 Silver Dollar, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150 · El Dorado County

ClosedInfant center

This center is closed. California lists its license as closed as of May 12, 2023. Its state inspection history is shown below.

Step By Step Early Learning Childcare Center was a licensed child care center in South Lake Tahoe, CA, licensed for up to 60 children. Its license closed around May 2023. Since February 2021, the state inspected it 1 time and investigated 2 complaints, 1 substantiated, and issued 2 citations, 2 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.

Inspection history

2Type A citations

0Type B citations

1Inspections

1 of 2Complaints substantiated

Every state visit

Citation issuedNo citationTop row: inspections · bottom row: complaint investigations and other visits

What inspectors cited most

Food & feeding1

Caregiver conduct1

Citations, newest first

Type ASep 27, 2022Complaint investigationFood & feeding

Infant food service §101427(c)

an infant child drinking the breast milk during a one time misbottling incident. 1 The facility has implemented a plan to ensure that children are being fed the correct bottles by using a two-step verification method with all staff handling infants in care. LPA Manabat has cleared this deficiency as on 09/27/2022

Plan of correction due Sep 28, 2022

Type ASep 27, 2022Case management visit (incident)Caregiver conduct

Personal rights §101223(a)(3)

an Unusual Incident Report which stated Staff 1 yelled at child 1 and shook a glove in the child's face. This is an immediate risk to the health and safety of children in care.

Plan of correction due Sep 28, 2022

Complaint investigations

SubstantiatedSep 27, 2022Complaint investigationreceived Jul 19, 2022

Substantiated allegation:

Staff not following infant's feeding plan.

1 citation issued during this investigation, listed under Citations.

Not substantiatedAug 9, 2022Complaint investigationreceived Jul 19, 2022

The state did not substantiate this complaint, so its allegations are not shown.

About this center

Licensed capacity60 children

License typeInfant center

License statusClosed

Licensed sinceOct 16, 2017

ClosedMay 12, 2023

LicenseeEarly Learning Corporation

Last administratorCandace Bailey

State facility #093621956

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Citations are quoted from California Department of Social Services inspection and complaint reports. Type A citations are the state’s most serious category (an immediate risk to children’s health, safety or personal rights); Type B citations are a potential risk. A citation is a finding about one rule, not a judgment about a center overall. Complaint allegations appear here only when the state substantiated them.

To read the full state reports, search facility number 093621956 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.

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