Licensed Child Care Center
Little Proteges Early Learning Center
Prince Frederick, MD
· Calvert County
71 Armory Road,
Prince Frederick, MD 20678
Quick Facts
Capacity
85 children
Age Range
6 weeks through 17 months, 18 months through 23 months, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 5 years to 15 years
Subsidized Program
Does not participate
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Contact Information
📞 (410) 535-6553
Licensed Child Care Center
Not found in current state licensing data
This provider appeared in previous licensing records but was not found in our most recent state data update.
Historical licensing information
Previous license status
Open
License Number
154791
Issued By
Maryland State Department of Education
District Office
Region 10 - Southern Maryland Office
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About the Provider
Little Protégés Early Learning Centre is located at 71 Armory Road in Prince Frederick, Maryland. Our hours of operation are 6:30 to 6:30, Monday through Friday. To schedule a tour, please contact Judy at (410) 535-6553. We provide a nurturing and mentoring environment for children ages 6 weeks to twelve years of age. We have incorporated custom amenities, coupled with innovative and age appropriate learning programs to establish an effective learning environment. We also provide a nutritious lunch, morning and afternoon snack.
Hours of Operation
- Monday 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM
- Tuesday 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM
- Wednesday 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM
- Thursday 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM
- Friday 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM
- Saturday Closed
- Sunday Closed
Inspection/Report History
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| Date | Type | Regulations | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-28 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.03.03D | Corrected |
| Findings: There were at least 4 contracts missing, of the random sample of 27 files reviewed. Please immediately ask the parents of JB, CT, CC, and CN to review and sign the contract indicating that they received the center's handbook, etc. Please forward written corrective action within 30 days. Please review all files to be sure there each family has a signed contract on file. | |||
| 2022-02-28 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.03.04C | Corrected |
| Findings: The emergency form for ZV is missing a parent signature. Please immediately ask the parent of ZV to review and sign their child's emergency form. There are several emergency forms that haven't been updated for over a year. Please immediately ask the parents of the children whose emergency form hasn't been updated for over a year to review their child's emergency form and initial and date the emergency form. Please refer to the list of children's names who appeared to be needing updated emergency forms. The list was created and provided to you by the Lic. Spec. during the inspection. The emergency forms for IH, ZH, EB, EC, RF, GJG, OK, NM, MM, AP, and LS, are missing the doctor contact information. Please immediately ask the parent of those children to add the doctor contact information. Please forward written corrective information within 30 days. | |||
| 2022-02-28 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.03.04D(3) | Corrected |
| Findings: There are at least 3 children's records, of the random sample of files reviewed, that are missing the doctor portion of the health inventory form. Please refer to your copy of the health record review form as to who needs this information. Please review all files for completeness. Please immediately ask parents to submit the completed health inventory form for their child. Please forward written corrective action within 30 days. | |||
| 2022-02-28 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.03.04E | Corrected |
| Findings: There are at least 7 children who appear to be missing age appropriate lead testing documentation. Please refer to your copy of the health record review form to determine who needs lead testing. Please immediately ask parents to submit the required lead documentation. Please forward written corrective action within 30 days. | |||
| 2022-02-28 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.03.04G | Corrected |
| Findings: There are at least 9 children who appear to be missing age appropriate immunization records. Please review all children's records to be sure all children are up to date on their immunizations. Please refer to your copy of the health record review form to determine which children appear to need immunizations or updates of immunizations. Please immediately ask parents to supply you with the age appropriate immunization records for their child. Please forward written corrective action within 30 days. | |||
| 2022-02-28 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.03.04J | Corrected |
| Findings: There was at least one child's record (CT) that was missing written individual needs information. Please immediately ask the parent to supply the center with the documentation needed. Please forward written corrective action within 30 days. | |||
| 2022-02-28 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.06.09C | Corrected |
| Findings: There was one staff, JC, who didn't complete her training within her training year of September 2020-September 2021. JC completed 3.5 hours of the 12 hours due by September 2021. JC did complete the remaining training hours by February 2022, therefore the non-compliance has been corrected. JC has also already completed at least 12 hours of training for this current training year of September 2021- September 2022. Please be sure all staff complete the minimum training requirements within their training year. | |||
| 2022-02-28 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.08.03D(2)(b) | Corrected |
| Findings: Lic. Spec. observed 1 staff person, CM, alone with a group of 12 children ages 4-10 in the school age room. The group size was too large since it contained 3-4 year olds and 9 school aged children. The group size needed to be limited to 10 children, due to the 4 year olds being present. A staff person arrived and took the preschoolers to another room thereby correcting this situation. The director explained that this wasn't a typical morning because NB called out today. The non-compliance was corrected on site within about 15 minutes. Please be sure that all staff child ratios and group sizes are correct all day every day. | |||
| 2021-11-19 | Complaint | 13A.16.07.01 | Corrected |
| Findings: At no time may a staff person use physical discipline with a child. There was a report indicating that a staff person yanked a child off of the ground and pulled the child down the hallway. This type of behavior would be considered injurious treatment. The staff person has been counselled and is being required to complete appropriate child discipline training. Upon inspection the staff who observed the incident stated that the staff was holding 1-2yr old child by the wrist and was walking quickly with one identified child and the child was stumbling and couldn't keep up with the staff person. The observing staff said that the staff walked the child outside. Upon watching the video the observing staff poked her head out of the doorway 2 different times and both times were seconds. The staff who was chasing the children who had run out of the classroom, denies the allegations. This staff reports catching up to the children in the hallway, grabbing their hands The staff report that the children were flailing, crying and dropped their weight to the floor. The staff remained holding their hands and waited for her coworker in the hallway to go outside. The stories are conflicting. | |||
| 2021-08-24 | Complaint | 13A.16.08.01A(2)(b) | Corrected |
| Findings: Complaint states that two boys in the preK room cut their hair with scissors while the two staff didn't know.The complaint also states that a toddler teacher is on her phone throughout the day and allowed a toddler to climb and stand on a table.Findings: Specialist observed videos of these occurrences.In the hair cutting incident the staff did not even look over at where the two boys were.Some children were getting out cots.The staff were sweeping and wiping tables.The boys were shown picking up the scissors and cutting hair and then one would ruffle his hair to get out the loose hair. Staff did not scan the room to see what these two boys were up to.Staff need to be scanning the room and if the boys were supposed to be getting ready for nap the staff should have been aware that they weren't doing that and investigate what they were up to. In the toddler on the table incident, the video shows the child laying on the table and the staff person some steps away holding another child watching the one on the table.She turns her back on the child on the table and walks further away.She should have put the other child down and removed the child from the table. Continued in Remarks. | |||
| 2021-08-24 | Complaint | 13A.16.09.04A(4)(a) | Corrected |
| Findings: Complaint states that there are no cribs in the toddler room even though there was a 6 month old in the room. Findings: Specialist observed that there are no cribs in the room for the 6 month old. She is assigned to this room. Center states it has signed permission for the child to sleep on a cot but didn't have it available for specialist to see. The regulations do not allow for a child under 12 months to be on a cot. Center states that yesterday was the first day the child was in the toddler room. Center states that the parent of the child is a staff person who knew there wasn't a crib in the room for the child. Director went to the storage shed to get a crib but the one in the shed was broken. Center needs to put a crib in the room immediately. | |||
| 2021-08-24 | Complaint | 13A.16.09.04G | Corrected |
| Findings: Complaint states a 6 month old child was asleep on a cot and not moved to an approved sleep source. Findings: The child was not napping while specialist was there. However the center thought it was ok to have her nap on a cot because they had written permission from the parent for the child to nap on a cot. Specialist was not able to see the permission. Center states that yesterday was the first day the child was in the toddler room. Center was going to put a crib in the room today but the one in the storage shed was broken. Center needs to get a crib immediately for the child. | |||
| 2021-02-22 | Full | ||
| Findings: No Noncompliances Found | |||
| 2021-02-22 | Full | 13A.16.06.04A(1) | Corrected |
| Findings: There was no medical on site for JC. Please immediately obtain a completed current medical for JC. Please keep the medical on file. Please notify the OCC when the updated medical is on site. This is to be corrected within 30 days. | |||
| 2021-02-22 | Full | 13A.16.06.09A(5) | Corrected |
| Findings: The director was unable to locate documentation of basic health and safety training for teacher L.C. The director believes that LC completed the training, but the staff wasn't present today and it wasn't located. The training was due no later than June 2020. Please forward written corrective action within 30 days. | |||
| 2021-02-22 | Full | 13A.16.06.12A(3) | Open |
| Findings: The director was unable to locate basic heath and safety training certificates for: JC, EM or KS. The training was due to be completed by June 2020 for current old staff or within 90 days of being hired. Please forward written corrective action within 30 days. | |||
| 2021-02-22 | Full | 13A.16.09.02C | Corrected |
| Findings: There were 2 individual plans for 2 infants that have not been updated for over 3 months. The staff and the director are aware of which 2 children need their plans updated. Please immediately ask the parent of the 2 identified children to update their individual plans. Please forward written corrective action within 30 days. | |||
| 2021-02-22 | Full | 13A.16.10.01A(3)(d) | Open |
| Findings: The emergency plan hasn't been updated since December 2019. Please review and update the emergency plan immediately. Please remember to update the plan at least 1x per year. Please forward written corrective action within 30 days. | |||
| 2020-08-10 | Complaint | 13A.16.07.03A(1) | Corrected |
| Findings: The discipline used by a staff person with the child in question was inappropriate. The director reports that the child had no injury at all, not even a red mark, immediately after the incident or later. The director also reports that the child who was disciplined has been difficult and aggressive and often needs redirection as the child bites other children frequently and pulls hair, etc. The staff have contacted the parent more than once due to the child's behavior issues and there have been numerous incident reports that the parent signs and returns regarding this child's behavior as well as a sibling. The staff seemed to be angry at the point of the incident. The staff person was described as "quiet". The director states that this substitute staff averaged about 20-30 hours a week since June. She was terminated on the day of the incident. The parent of the child involved was notified of the incident. Staff are all also told that if they are feeling upset by a child or need a break to make contact with the director or another staff member for assistance. The center handled the incident correctly, after the fact. The non compliance was corrected. | |||
| 2020-05-08 | Other | ||
| Findings: No Noncompliances Found | |||
| 2020-02-11 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.06.12A(3) | Corrected |
| Findings: There is one aide who hasn't completed the required 6 hours of continued training within "their" training year. AM needed to complete 6 hours of training by September 2019- she did complete 3 hours of the 6 hours. The director stated that AM was out on maternity leave and wasn't expected to return to work at the center. Once AM did decide to return to work, after maternity leave, the director thought that her training date was different. However, the director hadn't deleted and re-hired AM or changed her position. Please forward evidence of another 3 hours of approved training as soon as possible but within 30 days. Discussed that AM also needs to complete basic health and safety training and it is a 3 hour training and would meet the continued training requirement too. | |||
| 2019-06-06 | Complaint | 13A.16.05.12D | Corrected |
| Findings: Complainant reported on Wednesday that the center allowed a group of children to play outdoors near the road way, on Monday afternoon, in the front of the building. It was reported that there were 2 staff outside with the children and it was reported that both of the staff observed were sitting down. The director called this Lic.Spec. Wednesday to discuss the use of outdoor spaces for chalk play in the front of or on the side of the building. The director explained that on nice weather days the staff like to take the children outdoors for longer time frames then are designated for use on the playground. Due to the size of the playground the groups stager times outdoors. There is a community sidewalk in the front of the building as well as a covered brick area attached to the building. The approved outdoor play space is only the fenced in space behind the building. The director has already ceased the use of the front area of the building. However, the director plans to discuss, with the owner the possibility, of adding fencing and possibly more concrete to the front of the building for additional safe outdoor space for the children to use. | |||
| 2019-01-28 | Full | 13A.16.03.02E | Corrected |
| Findings: There are several 2 year olds missing evidence of lead testing, as per new (2016) requirement. The lead testing requirements were reviewed with the director. The director plans to follow up with the children's parents missing lead testing. Please forward written corrective action plan within 30 days. | |||
| 2019-01-28 | Full | 13A.16.03.06A(1) | Corrected |
| Findings: The director hired a staff person on July 30, 2019 and the OCC has no record of the staff person being hired for this site. The director states she didn't have a copy of the staff change form, 1203 form, that she believes she forwarded to OCC. There is also no release on file for this staff person. Licensing Specialist received a completed 1203 staff change form adding the staff in question on site. Lic. Spec. to review the Little Protgs Oak Tree center file for a current release form for this staff person. If the release form isn't in the other file then an original notarized release will need to forwarded to OCC ASAP. Lic. Spec. will follow up with director on this. This staff person should have also already completed the CBC for Little Protgs. | |||
| 2019-01-28 | Full | 13A.16.03.04C | Corrected |
| Findings: There was one of 81 emergency forms reviewed that was incomplete. The form in question was missing the child's doctor contact information. The director immediately contacted the parent on site, the form was completed. | |||
| 2019-01-28 | Full | 13A.16.03.02C(1) | Corrected |
| Findings: Of the children's records reviewed there were 2 children's files missing evidence that the parent received or was advised how to obtain a consumer education pamphlet. The director immediately obtained evidence of the consumer pamphlets being received by both of the parents known to have been missing evidence. This was corrected on site. Please be sure that there is evidence on file that each parent has received a consumer education pamphlet. | |||
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