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25 | On January 18, 2022 at 11:45 AM, Licensing Program Analysts (LPAs) Dean Thompson and Francisco Pedroza conducted an unannounced Case Management inspection. LPAs met with facility Director Danika King and advised her the purpose of the inspection. Director provided LPAs a tour of the facility. There were 48 children in care at the time of the inspection.
On January 10, 2022, Director contacted Community Care Licensing (CCL) to report an incident that occurred on January 7, 2022. Director advised that a child was left unattended inside the classroom.
LPA's conducted interviews with staff that were involved with the incident. The following information was gathered during staff interviews. At the time of the incident there were 17 children present inside the classroom with two staff. One staff escorted 12 children outside to the play yard leaving five (5) children in the classroom with another teacher. The teacher in the classroom was relieved by another staff for coverage. Shortly after relieving the staff, the children were escorted out to the play yard. Another staff was directed to relieve the the staff with 12 children for their break. When the staff went to relieve the other staff outside they observed only 16 children. Prior to going on their break they had observed the classroom had 17 children in care. After reviewing the face to name log, the staff noticed one specific child was missing. The staff asked the other staff if that child had left because they were supposed to have 17 children. The staff advised there was only four (4) children in the classroom at that time. Staff went to the classroom door to visually check if there was another child in the classroom. The staff did not observe a child. Staff then went with four children to the front desk to ask if the missing child left for the day. The staff at the front desk advised the child was not signed out. The front desk staff began to review the facility cameras. Staff observed the child was playing in the classroom alone. They immediately went to the classroom to check on the child and escorted the child to their group outside. Facility cameras determined the child was left alone for about nine (9) minutes
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