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VWCA Little Steps Childcare

Facility Type: Child Care - 300

Routine

October 3, 2024
Score & Grade: 0 Grade:
Contraventions:
A summary of the new or corrected contraventions found during the inspections are listed below.
Code
Category/Description
3010 - CCLR 19(1)(a)
Description: A licensee must not employ a person in a community care facility unless the licensee or, in the case of a person who is not the manager, the manager has first met with the person and obtained all of the following: a criminal record check for the person
Corrective Actions Required: Ensure a criminal record check is obtained for all employees.
Corrective Actions Taken By Licensee:
Actions Required By Licensing: Follow Up Inspection to be conducted.
To Be Corrected By: November 3, 2024
Observations: Licensing reviewed four staff files. One file did not contain a criminal record check. Licensee Contact stated that the facility had applied for the CRC but had not yet recieved it.
3030 - CCLR 34(2)(b)
Description: Without limiting subsection (1), a licensee must ensure that the ratio of employees to children attending a community care facility is no less than that permitted in Schedule E.
Corrective Actions Required: Ensure that the ratio of employees to children is no less than that permitted in Schedule E.
Corrective Actions Taken By Licensee:
Actions Required By Licensing: Follow Up Inspection to be conducted.
To Be Corrected By: October 3, 2024
Observations: Licensing observed that an ECEA was providing lunch coverage for the ECEs in both Group Child Care (30 months to School Age) programs leaving both programs without an ECE for that period of time. This was corrected at the time of inspection.