PHYSICAL FACILITY, EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHINGS: 11020 - CCLR s.13(2) - A licensee must ensure that the community care facility and the furniture, equipment and fixtures within it are clean and in good repair while children are in attendance.
Observation: In the area designated for the group child care (school age) children there is a window ledge that is painted yellow. The paint is chipped and the exposed areas are no longer cleanable as the surface is now porous.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure the area is sealed to enable it to be cleaned and sanitized.
Date to be Corrected: 29 October 2021
PHYSICAL FACILITY, EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHINGS: 11200 - CCLR s.17 - 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.
Observation: 1)In the area designated for the group child care (school age) children there were ant traps on the floor by the windows. The manufacturers recommendation on the product states the item is to be kept out of reach of children.
2) in the area designated for the preschool children there is a tall cupboard located adjacent to the activity sink. Stored in this cupboard was cleaning products and the manufacturers recommendation on these items state to keep out of children's reach.
Corrective Action(s): The traps need to be removed when children are present and the cleaning products must be stored in a manner that is out of reach of children.
Date to be Corrected: 17 September 2021
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES: 13020 - CCLR s.22(1)(b) - A licensee must: (b) have an emergency plan that sets out procedures to prepare for, mitigate, respond to and recover from any emergency.
Observation: Emergency Supplies are insufficient to implement the emergency plan
Corrective Action(s): There must be sufficient supplies on site for the licensed capacity as well as for staff.
Date to be Corrected: 15 October 2021
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