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KIDZ INK III

Child care center · 645 WEST NORTH STREET, Dover, DE 19904 · License 169062

16Compliance score
Poor

Capacity 151. Infant through School-Age Accepts subsidy

Violation history (14)

SeverityDateStandard / narrativeCorrected
?Fri May 06 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 27U - Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
Ensure staff to child ratio and maximum group size is maintained. According to the attendance records, the one-year-old classroom had up to 20 children with four staff, the youngest was one-year-old.
Yes
?Tue Mar 29 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 27U - Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
Ensure staff-to-child ratio is maintained at all times. According to attendance records dated April 1, 2022, one staff was alone with 12 children, age three-years-old. According to attendance in the younger two-year-old classroom, one staff was alone with up to 13 children. At the visit, attendance from the morning showed one staff was alone with up to 17 three-year-old children before a second staff arrived.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 24U - Staff Qualifications
Ensure the administrator and/or curriculum coordinator have specialized training for school-age care.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 26U - Staffing
Have an early childhood teacher trained in day-to-day operations.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 40U - Child Files
Ensure child files are complete. Child #8, Child #9, Child #11, Child #12, Child #16, and Child #21 need lead testing. Child #14 and Child #17 need an updated health appraisal with lead testing and immunizations. Child #22 needs an updated health appraisal with lead testing. Child #7, Child #8, Child #9, Child #10, Child #11, Child #13, Child #16, Child #18, Child #19, Child #20, and Child #21 need developmental plans. Child #14 needs an MAR for Vaseline.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 49U - Indoor Space
Ensure all areas are clean and in good repair. Repair the clogged sink in the young one's classroom. Clean the walls in the bathrooms and near the sinks in the two-year-old classrooms, school-age and the investigators classrooms. Reparis the booth in the school-age classroom. Repair the windowsills in the school-age and two-year-old classrooms. Ensure all sinks supply hot and cold water. Classrooms on the right side of the building do not have hot water running in the sinks. Ensure personal belongings are not touching. LS Sommer observed naptime sheets and blankets in a pile on top of a cot in one classroom. This was discussed and corrected.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 50U - Kitchen and Food Preparation
Ensure the kitchen is kept clean. LS Sommer observed spills along the cabinet fronts, in the ovens and on the walls. This was corrected when kitchen staff cleaned.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 30U - Personnel Files
Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #4 needs one reference. Staff #5 needs CPR/First Aid. Staff #6 needs question #4 completed on the health appraisal. Staff #8 needs administration of medication certification and an updated health appraisal with TB results. Staff #9 needs question #3 answered on the health appraisal. Staff #13 needs administration of medication certification, a job description, two references, an adult health appraisal with TB results and release of employment history with corresponding service letters. Child #14 needs #3 completed on the health appraisal. Staff #15 needs two references, employee declaration, drug/ alcohol statement, an adult health appraisal with TB results and release of employment history with corresponding services letters. Staff #16 needs service letters. Staff #17 needs administration of medication certification. Staff #18 needs on reference.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 57U - Equipment
Ensure there is a sufficient quantity of toys are available. Young twos needs more language, manipulatives, and music. Older twos need more language. Younger ones needs more language, manipulatives, and sensory.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 61U - Diapering and Soiled Clothing
Ensure changing tables are within five feet of a hand washing sink. This was discussed and corrected when the table were moved in the two-year-old classrooms. LS Sommer spoke with staff in the three-year-old classrooms about changing pull-ups. Staff stated they change the children standing up. Purchase non-porous mats, foot activated trashcans, diaper procedures, and disposable covers are available in these classrooms within five feet of a handwashing sink.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 66U - Emergency Planning
Purchase additional emergency food to allow shelter in place for 24 hours.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 74U - Lesson Plans
Ensure lesson plans include weekly opportunities. The younger four-year-old's need science and sensory. The three-year-old's need food/ health habits, science, music, and sensory.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 53U - Outdoor Area
Repair the broken fence on the larger playground. Replenish the fall zone material to ensure fall zones have nine inches of mulch. All indoor equipment where feet leave the ground require shock absorbent fall zones. Add shock absorbent fall zones to the indoor play space and the one-year-old classroom.
Yes
?Wed Feb 16 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 38U - Parents Right to Know
Complete and submit the Parents Right to Know log.
Yes

Severity 5 = most serious. Source: official state record.

Inspections (3)

3 inspection record(s) on file from DE-OCCL.

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