Findings cited on visits tied to this case
These are line items from OEC's compliance checklist — most centers accrue several per routine visit. Category labels are ours; the statute code and language are verbatim from the state record.
[19a-87b-9(c)]Health & safetyJul 15, 2011
25-Physical Environment- Absence of poisonous substances
Poisonous substances shall not be accessible to children enrolled in the facility. Poisonous and unidentified plants and plant parts shall be removed from the area, protected by barriers, or kept out of the reach of children.
[19a-87b-9(a)]Health & safetyJul 15, 2011
23-Physical Environment- Cleanliness
The facility and equipment shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and shall not pose a health hazard to children.
[19a-87b-9(b)]Health & safetyJul 15, 2011
24-Physical Environment- Freedom from hazards
The facility and equipment shall be in good repair, and reasonably free from anything that would be dangerous to children.
[19a-87b-9(f)]Health & safetyJul 15, 2011
28-Physical Environment- Safe space
There shall be sufficient indoor and outdoor play space to ensure appropriate activities, safety and comfort for the day care children. The indoor and outdoor play space shall be neither isolated nor remote from the primary care areas. The outdoor play area shall be protected from traffic, bodies of water, gullies, and other hazards by barriers, in a manner safe for children. When there is a swimming pool or any other body of water at the facility or near enough to the facility to attract or be accessible to children at any time of the year, there shall be a sturdy fence/barrier, four (4) feet high or higher, with locked entrances, which totally and effectively bars access to the water by the day care children. Shallow wading pools that are not fenced shall be emptied after each use and shall not collect water.
[19a-87b-10(h)]RatioJul 15, 2011
46-Responsibilities of Provider & Substitute- Supervision
The provider shall be responsible for the supervision of the children at all times while the children are at the facility, indoors or outdoors or on excursions. It is done by a provider who is within effective sight or sound of the children. The provider's personal schedule shall ensure that the provider has sufficient rest for alert and competent attention to the children at the facility. The provider shall not engage in any activity while on duty during customary business hours that distracts his/her attention from providing family child care services. The provider shall give an injured, ill, or distressed child immediate appropriate attention. The provider shall not leave the presence of the day care children unless and until the substitute or emergency provider has assumed the provider's responsibilities and is actually present with the day care children.
[19a-87b-10(j)]PaperworkJul 15, 2011
48-Responsibilities of Provider & Substitute- Child protection
The provider shall not engage in, nor allow, abusive, neglectful, physical, corporal, humiliating or frightening treatment or punishment, and shall not tie nor bind children and shall not restrain children except in appropriate circumstances for the protection and safety of the children or others. The provider or substitute shall notify the Office of Early Childhood within twenty-four (24) hours of the death of any child enrolled in the family child care home, if the child died while at the facility or if the child died of a contagious disease or any injury to a child that occurs while the child is at the facility which results in the child being admitted to a hospital or the child's death.