Description: MILFORD EARLY LEARNING CENTER is a Licensed Child Care Center in MILFORD DE, with a maximum capacity of 70 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 6 weeks through 5 years.. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
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| Date | Type | Regulation Code | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-06 | Non Compliance | 36U - Staff Attendance | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: The administrator failed to record her attendance at the center. Specialist Vandewater provided technical assistance to ensure attendance is maintained in the future. | |||
| 2020-08-06 | Non Compliance | 27U - Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: Ensure unqualified staff are not alone with children. According to attendance records, Staff #1, an intern, was alone in a classroom for infants on July 27, 2020, from 8:44 am to 9:27 am and on July 30, 2020, from 7:10 am to 1:00 pm. Submit one week of attendance records for all classrooms by August 17, 2020. | |||
| 2020-02-18 | Non Compliance | 30U - Personnel Files | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: Provide OCCL with a service letter for one staff member | |||
| 2019-10-21 | Non Compliance | 60N - Administration of medication | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: Medication can only be administered by certified staff members. A non-certified staff member administered medication to a child in care. The staff member’s employment was terminated. No futher corrective action is required. | |||
| 2019-10-21 | Non Compliance | 30N - Ratios, group size, and supervision | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: Proper staff-to-child ratios for infants must be maintained at all times. An intern was left alone in a classroom with five children including an infant. Staff must be qualified as at least an early childhood assistant teacher to be left alone with children and when an infant is present, no more than four children can be assigned to one staff member. Submit a staffing schedule showing how proper staff-to-child ratios will be maintained. | |||
| 2019-10-21 | Non Compliance | 16N - Records | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: Staff and children’s attendance must be documented with correct hours of arrival and departure. Staff failed to sign children and themselves out of two classrooms. Send one week’s worth of attendance records to OCCL | |||
| 2019-02-06 | Non Compliance | 22N - General qualifications | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: One staff member needs fingerprinting. | |||
| 2019-02-06 | Non Compliance | 20N - Personnel files | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: Two staff members need reference letters. | |||
| 2019-01-25 | Non Compliance | 30N - Ratios, group size, and supervision | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: Staff are to supervise children/the entire classroom at all times. | |||
| 2018-09-12 | Non Compliance | 36N - General safety practices | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: All areas of the center shall be clean, safe and free from hazards. The infant room ceiling was leaking and presents a hazard in the classroom. The area rug was wet and the room smelled of mildew. Repair the leak, replace the tiles, and submit copies of the receipt for the repair work to OCCL. | |||
| 2018-02-26 | Non Compliance | 42N - Sleeping accommodations | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: Label nap equipment in the two year old classroom. | |||
| 2017-02-01 | Non Compliance | 65N - Positive behavior management | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: Positive behavior management must be modeled at all times. One staff member must complete a three hour positive behavior management training course. | |||
| 2017-01-25 | Non Compliance | 20N - Personnel files | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: Six staff members need annual safe sleep updated. This was corrected at the visit. Eight staff members need updated annual review of adult abuse and neglect One staff member needs a TB evaluatioin | |||
| 2017-01-25 | Non Compliance | 33N - Annual professional development plan | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: Each staff member needs updated professional development plans. | |||
| 2017-01-25 | Non Compliance | 19N - Child files | Corrected |
| Corrective Action: One child needs dates of enrollment and hours of attendance documented. | |||
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