Description: CHILDREN IN ACTION is a Four Star Center License in MORGANTON NC, with a maximum capacity of 98 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 5 through 12. The provider also participates in a subsidized child care program.
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Date | Type | Violations | Rule |
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2023-08-31 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
2023-08-31 | Violation | 1756 | 10A NCAC 09 .2818 |
Enhanced staff/child ratios and group sizes were not met. In space #5b, twenty school age children ranging from 5 years of age to 12 years of age were observed with only one staff. Later during the visit in space #5a, eighteen school age children ranging from 5 years of age to 21 years of age were observed with only one staff. This facility follows highest voluntary enhanced ratios. | |||
2023-08-30 | Unannounced Inspection | No | |
2023-08-23 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
2023-08-23 | Violation | 476 | .1005(b)(6) |
Staff did not use the list of participating children to check attendance when leaving the center, periodically when the children were involved in the activity, before leaving the activity to return to the center, and/or upon return to the center. Applicable attendance records were not kept during the field trip taken on August 16, 2023, and were not on file available for review. Attendance records for field trips taken on August 18, 2023, August 21, 2023, and August 22, 2023, were not sufficient and did not include periodic attendance when the children were involved in the activity, before leaving the activity to return to the center, and/or upon return to the center. The attendance record included a list of all enrolled children rather than a list of only the children participating in the field trip and only included a check mark for "leaving" and a check mark for "returning". | |||
2023-08-23 | Violation | 840 | .2820(b) |
All corrosive agents, pesticides, bleaches, detergents, cleansers, polishes, any product which is under pressure in an aerosol dispenser, and any substance which may be hazardous to a child if ingested, inhaled, or handled were not stored in a locked room or cabinet. One aerosol can of Equate brand sunscreen was observed on the sidewalk of the paved outdoor area where children were engaged in water play activities. | |||
2023-08-23 | Violation | 860 | .0604(q) |
Balloons were accessible to children. Broken pieces of water balloons were observed scattered on the pavement on the paved outdoor area where children were engaged in water play activities. | |||
2023-08-23 | Violation | 1041 | G.S. 110-90.2(b) |
Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One new staff, Debbie Summerscales, employed on 8/18/2023 to drive the facilities bus, did not have a criminal background check completed prior to employment. | |||
2023-08-23 | Violation | 1106 | GS 110-91(13) |
Each adult and child was not restrained by appropriate individual belt/device. One 15 passenger van had one seat belt in the third row that was not operable. Staff confirmed that on August 16, 2023, one child sat in the seat without an operable seat belt and was transported from the Catawba Science Center back to the facility without being restrained with an individual seat belt. | |||
2023-08-23 | Violation | 1124 | 10A NCAC 09 .1003(d) |
Emergency and identifying information, including the child's name, photograph, emergency contact information and/or a copy of the emergency medical care information form was not in the vehicle for each child being transported. Emergency information for six school age children that were transported by the facility did not include a photograph of the child. | |||
2023-08-23 | Violation | 1757 | G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) |
A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. A valid criminal background check qualifying letter was not on file for one staff, Debbie Summerscales, employed on 8/18/2023. This staff drove the facilities bus with children present on August 18, 2023, August 21, 2023, and August 22, 2023. | |||
2023-08-23 | Violation | 1915 | .1403(b)(1-5) |
Aquatic activities were permitted in hot tubs, spas, saunas or steam rooms, portable wading pools, natural bodies of water, or other unfiltered non disinfected containments of water. On the paved area outdoors, school age children were observed during water play activities involving five portable wading pools and one inflatable with a body of water at the end of the slide containing approximately one foot of water. | |||
2023-02-23 | Unannounced Inspection | Yes | |
2023-02-23 | Violation | 125 | 10A NCAC 09 .0302(d)(4) |
Daily records of arrival and departure times for children enrolled at the center were not maintained as children arrive and depart and/or were not made available for review. Two children were not signed out on February 3, 2023. One child was not signed in on February 10, 2023 and one child was not signed in on February 17, 2023. | |||
2023-02-23 | Violation | 847 | 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) |
Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. The authorization to administer one child's Eucerin hand cream did not include the parent's signature nor the date of authorization. |
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