Description: A licensee must ensure that children do not have access to any object or substance that may be hazardous to the health or safety of a child

Corrective Actions Required: Ensure children do not have access to hazards.

Corrective Actions Taken By Licensee:

Actions Required By Licensing: Follow Up Inspection to be conducted.

To Be Corrected By: October 21, 2023

Observations: In the outdoor play area Licensing observed that a teeter totter was missing a safety rubber cover exposing a screw and creating a pinch hazards that extended and contracted with the movement of the equipment.

Description: Equipment is free of entanglement hazards in areas of uncontrolled motion. (Something around the child’s neck becomes caught on equipment) Use Entanglement test device

Corrective Actions Required: Ensure that equipment is free of entanglement hazards.

Corrective Actions Taken By Licensee:

Actions Required By Licensing: Follow Up Inspection to be conducted.

To Be Corrected By: September 21, 2023

Observations: Licensing used entanglement tool and detected an entanglement hazard on a the left hand side of a slide measuring five feet in height. This represents an immediate risk to the health and safety of children in care and must be corrected immediately. Manager stated the slide would not be in use until entanglement hazards is mitigated.

Description: If a licensee has agreed with a parent to give a child any medication prescribed by a medical practitioner or provided by the parent, the licensee and his or her employees must ensure that the medication is (a) administered to the child in the amount and at the times specified by the child’s parent or in the child’s record or care plan

Corrective Actions Required: Ensure medication is administered in the amount and times specified by a parent or medical practitioner.

Corrective Actions Taken By Licensee:

Actions Required By Licensing: Follow Up Inspection to be conducted.

To Be Corrected By: September 21, 2023

Observations: Licenisng observed that a medication form indicating that medication had been administered to a child in the month of July 2023, did not contain a record specifying the amount or time the medication should be administered as prescribed by a parent or medical practitioner.