Island Health
1952 Bay Street Victoria, B.C. V8R 1J8 | Visit Official Website (opens in a new tab)

Complaint Investigation

Inspection Information

Facility Type

Child Care - 300

Received Date

06-Jan-2023

Subject

["Behavioural Guidance","Disease Outbreak/Occurrence","Health and Safety","Missing or Wandering Person","Nutrition and Food Service (Includes issues such as consistency, quantity, quality, feeding assistance, timing, etc.)","Physical Abuse","Physical Plant/Equipment (Includes issues such as cleanliness, state of repair, insufficient quantity of supplies, smoking/vaping etc.)","Reporting (Includes issues such as not reporting, insufficient reporting, etc.)"]

Contraventions: A summary of the new contraventions found during the inspections are listed below.

Code

Category/Description

3030 - CCLR 51(1)(a) 
 

A licensee must ensure that behavioural guidance is appropriate to the age and development of the child who is receiving the guidance,

Observation: Through the investigation process, Licensing determined that the behavioural guidance used was not appropriate to the age and development of the child who was receiving the guidance.

Corrective action: Ensure that behavioural guidance was appropriate to the age and development of the child, who was receiving the guidance. Action/s Required by Licensee: Licensee to submit corrective action plan to Licensing specific to contravention. Action/s Required by Licensing: On March 10, 2023, Licensee submitted a corrective action plan to Licensing. The corrective action plan included: all staff to read and sign off on the Licensee's Behaviour Guidance Policy and staff would submit written statements about their own behaviour guidance techniques specific to incidents of biting. This corrective action plan was reviewed and accepted by Licensing. On March 10, 2023, Licensee submitted staff written behaviour guidance statements, and on March 21, 2023, Manager provided documentation which showed that staff had reviewed and signed off on Behaviour Guidance Policy.