The Childrens Education And Learning Cen

Regulation: 3270.31(e)(4)(ii)

Description: Fire safety - 1 yr.

Noncompliance Area: A renewal inspection occurred at the facility. A review of staff files was conducted. Regulation requires staff to participate in annual fire safety training. The following staff did not participate in annual fire safety training: Staff #3 (previous 6/27/23, current 7/10/24), Staff #4 (previous 6/29/23, current 7/19/24), Staff #5 (previous 7/5/23, current 8/26/24) and Staff #6 (previous 5/25/23, current 6/18/24).

Correction Required: Staff persons shall participate, at least annually, in firesafety training conducted by a fire protection professional. Staff persons and volunteers shall receive training in maintenance of smoke detectors, the duties of facility persons during a fire drill and during a fire and the use of the facility's fire extinguishers, not including discharge of the fire suppressant agent.

Regulation: 3270.31(f)

Description: Health and Safety Training

Noncompliance Area: A renewal inspection occurred at the facility. A review of staff files was conducted. See the code sheet for the date of hire. Staff person #2 has not completed the following required pre-service training within 90 days of their date of hire from an approved PQAS instructor: pediatric first aid/CPR. Staff #2 completed an unacceptable training on 5/22/24.

Correction Required: Staff persons shall complete professional development within 90 days of hire as listed in subsections (f)10. Staff person #2 will have until 1/24/25 to complete the required training. Until such time as the required training has been completed, staff person #2 must be supervised, when interacting with children, by an AGS who has completed the required training related to this citation. If there are no staff available to supervise staff person #2, staff person #2 may not work in a child-care position at the facility.

Regulation: 3270.32(a)/3270.192(4)

Description: Comply with CPSL/CPSL information

Noncompliance Area: A renewal inspection occurred at the facility. A review of staff files was conducted. See the code sheet for the date of hire. Staff #1 was hired using a volunteer child abuse clearance dated 8/2/23. The CPSL states a volunteer clearance cannot be used for employment in child care. Staff #1 was working in child care at the time of this inspection. The CPSL requires clearances to be updated every 60 months. Staff #7 did not update their clearances every 60 months: child abuse (previous 8/29/16, update 9/24/21) and FBI (previous 8/29/16, current 9/23/21).

Correction Required: The operator shall comply with the CPSL and with Chapter 3490 (relating to protective services). A facility person's record shall include a copy of requests for the criminal history record and child abuse registry clearance information, a copy of the disclosure statement and a copy of the completed clearance information required under the CPSL. Facility Person #1 may not work in a child care position at the facility.

Regulation: 3270.124(e)

Description: Written emergency plan posted

Noncompliance Area: During the inspection, there was no written plan posted in any of the childcare spaces which identified how a child would be transported in the event of an emergency and what staffing provisions would be provided.

Correction Required: A written plan identifying the means of transporting a child to emergency care and staffing provisions in the event of an emergency shall be displayed conspicuously in every child care space and shall accompany a staff person who leaves on an excursion with children.

Regulation: 3270.14/3270.21

Description: Pertinent Laws & Regulations/General Health and Safety

Noncompliance Area: During the inspection, the emergency plan reviewed does not contain information about the continuity of operations.

Correction Required: A facility shall be operated in conformity with applicable Federal and State laws and regulations. State agencies whose regulations may relate to the operation of a facility include the Department of Environmental Resources, the Department of Labor and Industry, the Department of Health, the Department of Education and the Department of Transportation. Conditions at the facility may not pose a threat to the health or safety of the children. To maintain full compliance with 45 CFR 98.41(a)(1)(vii), child care facilities must have requirements for volunteer emergency preparedness training, practice drills and continuity of operations included in their emergency plan.

Regulation: 3270.151(c)(3)/3270.151(c)(5)

Description: Exam communicable disease/Physician/CRNP assessment

Noncompliance Area: Facility person #3 had a health assessment on file which did not include an examination for communicable diseases and the results of that examination or the physician or CRNP's assessment of the person's suitability to provide child care.

Correction Required: An adult health assessment must include an examination for communicable diseases and the results of that examination. An adult health assessment must include the physician's or CRNP's assessment of the person's suitability to provide child care.

Regulation: 3270.171(a)

Description: Pick-up and drop-off points

Noncompliance Area: During the inspection, there was no documentation on file which showed that the local traffic safety authorities had received an annual written notification of the facility and the program's use of pedestrian and vehicular routes around the childcare facility.

Correction Required: An operator shall notify local traffic safety authorities annually in writing of the location of the facility and the program's use of pedestrian and vehicular routes around the child care facility.

Regulation: 3270.192(2)(ii)/3270.192(2)(iv)

Description: Exp, educ., training prior to facility/Transcript, diploma and letters

Noncompliance Area: The record for staff person #5 did not include any education.

Correction Required: A facility person's record shall include verification of child care experience, education and training prior to service at the facility. A facility person's record shall include acceptable verification of experience, education or training is a transcript or a diploma or a letter signed by a representative of the experiential, educational or training entity.

Regulation: 3270.32(a)/3270.192(4)

Description: Comply with CPSL/CPSL information

Noncompliance Area: Staff person #10 (see code sheet for date of hire) who resided outside of Pennsylvania within the last five years did not obtain the missing out-of-state clearances until March of 2023 and November of 2023. Staff person #11 (see code sheet for date of hire) who resided outside of Pennsylvania within the last five years did not obtain the missing out-of-state clearance until November 2023. These clearances were required to be requested prior to working with children, and staff must have presented them within the first 45 days.

Correction Required: The operator shall comply with the CPSL and with Chapter 3490 (relating to protective services). A facility person's record shall include a copy of requests for the criminal history record and child abuse registry clearance information, a copy of the disclosure statement and a copy of the completed clearance information required under the CPSL.

Regulation: 3270.95(a)

Description: Devices must be compliant

Noncompliance Area: The fire detection system logs showed that the fire detection system was not tested every 30 days as evidenced by the following documented testing logs: 1/17/23 to 2/23/23, 3/16/23 to 4/19/23, 5/8/23 to 6/13/23, 7/3/23 to 8/17/23, 8/17/23 to 9/21/23, and 10/10/23 to 11/21/23.

Correction Required: Fire detection devices or systems must be in compliance with standards established under section 1016(c) of the act (62 P.S. §  1016(c)). Child care facilities in a commercial space (center and group) must manually test its alarm at least once every 30 days and shall maintain a written record of testing with the facility's fire drill logs in accordance with 62 P.S. § 1016(c)(1).

Regulation: 3270.163(a)(1)

Description: Dairy

Noncompliance Area: During inspection on 12/28/22 observed facility children served a lunch that did not include a dairy product.

Correction Required: A lunch or dinner prepared at the facility for children of toddler age or older shall include at least one dairy product.

Regulation: 3270.31(f)

Description: Health and Safety Training

Noncompliance Area: Staff person #-1-2 have acceptable pediatric first aid/CPR training in an approved curriculum; however, the trainer has not provided documentation that they are PQAS-certified in that training topic.

Correction Required: Staff person shall complete professional development in the topics of 3270.31(f)(10) within 90 days of hire. Staff person #-1-2 must receive pediatric first aid/CPR training in an approved curriculum by a PQAS-certified trainer. Until such time as the correction is implemented, staff person #-1-2 must be supervised, when interacting with children, by an AGS, who has completed the required training related to this citation. If there are no staff available to supervise staff person #-1-2, staff person #-1-2 may not work in a child-care position at the facility.

Regulation: 3270.32(a)/3270.192(4)

Description: Comply with CPSL/CPSL information

Noncompliance Area: Staff number 1 and staff number 2 were hired as provisional staff. Staff 1 & 2 have lived in another state within 5 years and do not have a record of out of state clearance and clearance request.

Correction Required: The operator shall comply with the CPSL and with Chapter 3490 (relating to protective services). AS of July, 1 2020 the CPDL was changed to including a requirement of facility persons and household members who have lived outside of Pennsylvania within the past five years. These persons are required to provide background checks for the State (s) they have resided in within the past five years. .Staff number 1 & 2- may not work in a child care position at the facility.

Noncompliance Area: There is only on written non family reference on file for staff person # 2.

Correction Required: A facility person's record shall include two written, nonfamily references from individuals attesting to the person's suitability to serve as a facility person

Noncompliance Area: Staff person # 1 was hired on 2/26/2019. The state police clearance on file is for a volunteer. The FBI clearance dated 1/17/2019 is provided by the Department of Education instead of Department of Human Services, therefore is not valid.

Correction Required: The operator shall comply with the CPSL and with Chapter 3490 (relating to protective services). Staff Person # 1 may not work in a child care position at the facility. A facility person's record shall include a copy of requests for the criminal history record and child abuse registry clearance information, a copy of the disclosure statement and a copy of the completed clearance information required under the CPSL. Staff Person # 1 may not work in a child care position at the facility.

Noncompliance Area: There is no health insurance name and policy number listed on the emergency contact form for Child # 1. There is no health insurance policy number listed on the emergency contact form for Child # 2.

Correction Required: Emergency contact information must include health insurance coverage and policy number for a child under a family policy or Medical Assistance benefits, if applicable.

Noncompliance Area: THERE WAS AN OVEN DOOR ON A KITCHEN PLAY SET IN THE 3 & 4 YEAR OLD ROOM THAT WAS CRACKED CAUSING A PINCH POINT. THERE WERE GYMNASTICS PLAY MATS IN THE INDOOR GYM THAT WERE TORN ON THE EDGES MAKING THEM UNABLE TO BE PROPERLY CLEANED AND SANITIZED.

Correction Required: Toys, play equipment and other indoor and outdoor equipment used by the children shall be clean, in good repair and free from rough edges, sharp corners, pinch and crush points, splinters and exposed bolts.